adamghill django-unicorn prior 0.62.0 set_property_value dynamically-determined object attributes

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in adamghill django-unicorn. Affected is the function set_property_value. Performing a manipulation results in dynamically-determined object attributes. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-24370. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in adamghill django-unicorn. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function set_property_value. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a dynamically-determined object attributes vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-915. The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies multiple attributes, properties, or fields that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control which attributes can be modified. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Django-Unicorn adds modern reactive component functionality to Django templates. Affected versions of Django-Unicorn are vulnerable to python class pollution vulnerability. The vulnerability arises from the core functionality `set_property_value`, which can be remotely triggered by users by crafting appropriate component requests and feeding in values of second and third parameter to the vulnerable function, leading to arbitrary changes to the python runtime status. With this finding at least five ways of vulnerability exploitation have been observed, stably resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Denial of Service (DoS), and Authentication Bypass attacks in almost every Django-Unicorn-based application. This issue has been addressed in version 0.62.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-24370 since 01/20/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 0.62.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 17614200f27174f789d4af54cc3a1f2b0df7870c is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Content Management System

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• adamghill

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• django-unicorn

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/adamghill/django-unicorn/

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