🛡️ CVE-2021-35042 — django

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-89 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SQL Injection in Django

Django 3.1.x before 3.1.13 and 3.2.x before 3.2.5 allows QuerySet.order_by SQL injection if order_by is untrusted input from a client of a web application.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-35042 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2021-35042 is recorded against 1 package.

  • django

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 3 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

docs.djangoproject.com (Web)
groups.google.com (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)
www.djangoproject.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-04-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
django — —

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