CVE-2026-7666: Djangoproject Django

Low severity, CVSS 3.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.6 and 5.2 before 5.2.15. `django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend` in Django fails to prevent reuse of a partially-initialized connection after a failed `STARTTLS` handshake when `fail_silently=True`, which allows on-path network attackers to read email content via cleartext interception. Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected. Django would like to thank Kasper Dupont for reporting this issue.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: from 5.2, before 5.2.15 (fixed in 5.2.15); from 6.0, before 6.0.6 (fixed in 6.0.6)

Published 2026-06-03. Last modified 2026-07-21.