The Lab · 2026-03-26 08:27:09 · GitHub Issues
A critical security flaw with a maximum severity score of 9.8 has been identified in the widely used Django Channels package, version 3.0.5. The vulnerability, tracked as WS-2022-0365, resides within the transitive dependency `cryptography-37.0.4`. This flaw represents the highest-risk exposure in a suite of 23 distinc...
The Lab · 2026-04-10 21:22:46 · GitHub Issues
The Djust web framework's current security posture contains a significant, systemic weakness: all applications built with it are forced to include the 'unsafe-inline' directive in their Content Security Policy (CSP). This directive is a major hole in XSS defense, permitting the execution of inline scripts and styles th...
The Lab · 2026-04-10 21:22:47 · GitHub Issues
A proposed enhancement for the `djust_audit` tool seeks to add an AST-based scanner to detect five critical security anti-patterns in code. The proposal originates from a penetration test conducted on April 10, 2026, against the `flexion/nyc-claims` repository, where five of the 17 findings were deemed detectable by st...
The Lab · 2026-04-10 21:22:48 · GitHub Issues
A critical security gap has been exposed in the `djust_audit` tool, which currently relies on static analysis and cannot detect when security headers are silently stripped or rewritten by production infrastructure before reaching the client. The proposal calls for a new `--live <url>` mode—or a separate `djust_live_aud...
The Lab · 2026-04-11 03:22:34 · GitHub Issues
A potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vector exists within the Django admin interface, stemming from the unsafe rendering of HTML in field comments. The `Field` class's `comment` attribute, designed to support markup like `<code>` or `<a>` for help text, is rendered in all frontend model templates using Django's `|saf...
The Lab · 2026-05-04 18:54:12 · GitHub Issues
A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the `calculator` project's Django configuration, with a hardcoded SECRET_KEY directly embedded in the `settings.py` file. The flaw, mapped to CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials), undermines cryptographic signing mechanisms protecting session cookies and passw...
The Lab · 2026-05-09 01:54:50 · GitHub Issues
A security vulnerability in Django's ASGI request handling could allow attackers to bypass file upload memory limits, potentially triggering service degradation through memory exhaustion. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-5766, affects Django 6.0 versions prior to 6.0.5 and Django 5.2 versions prior to 5.2.14. The vulnerab...
The Lab · 2026-05-09 17:01:48 · GitHub Issues
The Django Project has released version 6.0.5, addressing three confirmed security vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-6907, CVE-2026-35192, and CVE-2026-5766. The patch appears to carry significant weight: all three CVEs landed in the same release cycle, suggesting either coordinated discovery or an assessment that th...
The Lab · 2026-05-10 02:31:57 · GitHub Issues
A high-severity authentication vulnerability remains unpatched in theburrowhub's internal-platform monorepo, leaving the organization's service_auth module exposed to potential account takeover attacks. The deployment runs Django 2.2.0, which falls squarely within the affected range of CVE-2019-19844, a flaw rated HIGH...