high Patched

django-sendfile2 before 0.7.0 contains reflected file download vulnerability

GHSA-pcjh-6r5h-r92r · published 11 Aug 2022

How serious is it

  • Severity: high.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  • No public exploit in Exploit-DB.

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Who is affected

  • django-sendfile2 (PyPI) < 0.7.0

How to check

  1. Run pip show django-sendfile2 in your project to see the installed version, including copies pulled in by other packages.
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How to fix

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  1. Upgrade django-sendfile2 to 0.7.0 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy.
  2. If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.

The advisory

Similar to CVE-2022-36359 for Django, django-sendfile2 did not protect against a reflected file download attack in version 0.6.1 and earlier. If the file name used by django-sendfile2 was derived from user input, then it would be possible to perform a such an attack. A new version of django-sendfile2 will be released. Either download django-sendfile2 0.7.0 as a workaround or sanitize user input yourself, using Django's patch as a template: https://github.com/django/django/commit/bd062445cffd3f6cc6dcd20d13e2abed818fa173

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References

Merged from GitHub Advisory Database. Last updated 25 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON

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