Sept. 3, 2025

Django security releases issued: 5.2.6, 5.1.12, and 4.2.24

published by	Sarah Boyce
in blog	The Django weblog
original entry	Django security releases issued: 5.2.6, 5.1.12, and 4.2.24

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.2.6, Django 5.1.12, and Django 4.2.24. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible.

CVE-2025-57833: Potential SQL injection in FilteredRelation column aliases

FilteredRelation was subject to SQL injection in column aliases, using a suitably crafted dictionary, with dictionary expansion, as the **kwargs passed QuerySet.annotate() or QuerySet.alias().

Thanks to Eyal Gabay (EyalSec) for the report.

This issue has severity "high" according to the Django security policy.

Affected supported versions

Django main
Django 5.2
Django 5.1
Django 4.2

Resolution

Patches to resolve the issue have been applied to Django's main, 5.2, 5.1, and 4.2 branches. The patches may be obtained from the following changesets.

CVE-2025-57833: Potential SQL injection in FilteredRelation column aliases

On the main branch
On the 5.2 branch
On the 5.1 branch
On the 4.2 branch

The following releases have been issued

Django 5.2.6 (download Django 5.2.6 | 5.2.6 checksums)
Django 5.1.12 (download Django 5.1.12 | 5.1.12 checksums)
Django 4.2.24 (download Django 4.2.24 | 4.2.24 checksums)

The PGP key ID used for this release is : 3955B19851EA96EF

General notes regarding security reporting

As always, we ask that potential security issues be reported via private email to security@djangoproject.com, and not via Django's Trac instance, nor via the Django Forum. Please see our security policies for further information.