Vulnerability Intelligence Report
Privilege abuse in GenericInlineModelAdmin
CVE-2026-4277
An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.4, 5.2 before 5.2.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.30. Add permissions on inline model instances were not validated on submission of forged `POST` data in `GenericInlineModelAdmin`. Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected. Django would like to thank N05ec@LZU-DSLab for reporting this issue.
No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
9.8
CRITICAL
Exploitability:3.9
Impact Score:5.9
EPSS Probability:0.46%
Executive Threat Verdict
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Attack Surface
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Authentication
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Weaponization
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SSVC Action
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Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-862 ↗CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Affected Products & Versions
| Vendor | Product | Affected Versions |
|---|---|---|
| djangoproject | Django | 6.0 < 6.0.4 (affected), 6.0.4 (unaffected), 5.2 < 5.2.13 (affected), 5.2.13 (unaffected), 4.2 < 4.2.30 (affected), 4.2.30 (unaffected) |
References & Technical Advisories
No reference links found.
Threat Intelligence Signals
EPSS Score
0.458%
GitHub Advisory
Identity & Timeline
| Status | PUBLISHED |
| Assigning Authority | Django Software Foundation · Vendor · USA |
| Reserved | 2026-03-16T15:26:08 |
| Published | 2026-04-07T14:22:25 |
| Patch Date | 2026-04-07 |
| Last Updated | 2026-06-23T15:52:41 |
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