Fixed #36991 -- Raised BadRequest for invalid encodings in Content-Type headers.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/django/http/request.py b/django/http/request.py
index f871ea15e8..44bf09450b 100644
--- a/django/http/request.py
+++ b/django/http/request.py
@@ -155,9 +155,12 @@ class HttpRequest:
 
     def _set_content_type_params(self, meta):
         """Set content_type, content_params, and encoding."""
-        self.content_type, self.content_params = parse_header_parameters(
-            meta.get("CONTENT_TYPE", "")
-        )
+        try:
+            self.content_type, self.content_params = parse_header_parameters(
+                meta.get("CONTENT_TYPE", "")
+            )
+        except ValueError as exc:
+            raise BadRequest("Invalid Content-Type header.") from exc
         if "charset" in self.content_params:
             try:
                 codecs.lookup(self.content_params["charset"])