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🛡️ CVE-2026-16207

🟢 CVSS 3.7 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-598 NVD
3.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was detected in django-tastypie up to 0.15.1. Impacted is the function ApiKeyAuthentication of the file tastypie/authentication.py. The manipulation results in use of get request method with sensitive query strings. The attack can be launched remotely. This attack is characterized by high complexity. The exploitability is considered difficult. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16207 is classified as CWE-598: Use of HTTP Request With Sensitive Query String. The web application uses an HTTP method to process a request, but the request includes sensitive information in the query string.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16207 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 19 July 2026 and last revised on 20 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-598: Use of HTTP Request With Sensitive Query String) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-598
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-19
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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