CVE-2026-114138

{
  "etk_id": "ETK-2026-2358",
  "cve_id": "CVE-2026-114138",
  "display_id": "CVE-2026-114138",
  "ghsa_id": "GHSA-33wh-fxxf-88vv",
  "euvd_id": "EUVD-2026-107548",
  "status": "published",
  "anchor_state": "anchored",
  "title": "Accept header CPU exhaustion in django-rest-framework",
  "summary": "Django REST framework versions before 3.18.2 can spend excessive CPU processing oversized, token-heavy Accept headers. An unauthenticated remote client can degrade availability by sending such requests to reachable API endpoints, particularly where synchronous workers handle concurrent traffic.",
  "mitigation": "Upgrade django-rest-framework to version 3.18.2 or later. Until upgraded, limit request-header sizes and rate-limit unauthenticated requests at the proxy or application edge.",
  "vendor": "encode",
  "product": "django-rest-framework",
  "affected": [
    {
      "affected_notes": [],
      "affected_ranges": [
        "<= 3.18.0"
      ],
      "ecosystem": "pip",
      "fixed_versions": [
        "3.18.2"
      ],
      "package_name": "djangorestframework",
      "purl": "pkg:pypi/djangorestframework"
    }
  ],
  "cwes": [
    400
  ],
  "cvss_score": 7.5,
  "cvss_src": "cna_vendor",
  "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
  "epss_score": null,
  "epss_percentile": null,
  "epss_asof": null,
  "automation": "contextual",
  "check": false,
  "check_confidence_basis": null,
  "exploit": false,
  "pipeline_minutes": 8.11851225,
  "t0_at": "2026-10-21T20:09:06.489000+00:00",
  "signals": {
    "trigger_signal": {
      "at": "2026-10-21T20:09:06.489000+00:00",
      "days": 0,
      "is_lower_bound": false,
      "measured_at": "2026-10-21T20:09:06.489000+00:00",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-114138"
    }
  }
}