[5.0.x] Fixed CVE-2025-27556 -- Mitigated potential DoS in url_has_allowed_host_and_scheme() on Windows.

Thank you sw0rd1ight for the report.

Backport of 39e2297210d9d2938c75fc911d45f0e863dc4821 from main.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/django/core/validators.py b/django/core/validators.py
index fe8d46526a..14b89ff11e 100644
--- a/django/core/validators.py
+++ b/django/core/validators.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urlunsplit
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.utils.deconstruct import deconstructible
 from django.utils.encoding import punycode
+from django.utils.http import MAX_URL_LENGTH
 from django.utils.ipv6 import is_valid_ipv6_address
 from django.utils.regex_helper import _lazy_re_compile
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ class URLValidator(RegexValidator):
     message = _("Enter a valid URL.")
     schemes = ["http", "https", "ftp", "ftps"]
     unsafe_chars = frozenset("\t\r\n")
-    max_length = 2048
+    max_length = MAX_URL_LENGTH
 
     def __init__(self, schemes=None, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
diff --git a/django/utils/html.py b/django/utils/html.py
index d04e594d13..df0b3984df 100644
--- a/django/utils/html.py
+++ b/django/utils/html.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from django.core.exceptions import SuspiciousOperation
 from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango60Warning
 from django.utils.encoding import punycode
 from django.utils.functional import Promise, cached_property, keep_lazy, keep_lazy_text
-from django.utils.http import RFC3986_GENDELIMS, RFC3986_SUBDELIMS
+from django.utils.http import MAX_URL_LENGTH, RFC3986_GENDELIMS, RFC3986_SUBDELIMS
 from django.utils.regex_helper import _lazy_re_compile
 from django.utils.safestring import SafeData, SafeString, mark_safe
 from django.utils.text import normalize_newlines
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ VOID_ELEMENTS = {
     "spacer",
 }
 
-MAX_URL_LENGTH = 2048
 MAX_STRIP_TAGS_DEPTH = 50
 
 
diff --git a/django/utils/http.py b/django/utils/http.py
index cfd982fc01..cc340ce849 100644
--- a/django/utils/http.py
+++ b/django/utils/http.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ ASCTIME_DATE = _lazy_re_compile(r"^\w{3} %s %s %s %s$" % (__M, __D2, __T, __Y))
 
 RFC3986_GENDELIMS = ":/?#[]@"
 RFC3986_SUBDELIMS = "!$&'()*+,;="
+MAX_URL_LENGTH = 2048
 
 
 def urlencode(query, doseq=False):
@@ -273,7 +274,10 @@ def url_has_allowed_host_and_scheme(url, allowed_hosts, require_https=False):
 def _url_has_allowed_host_and_scheme(url, allowed_hosts, require_https=False):
     # Chrome considers any URL with more than two slashes to be absolute, but
     # urlparse is not so flexible. Treat any url with three slashes as unsafe.
-    if url.startswith("///"):
+    if url.startswith("///") or len(url) > MAX_URL_LENGTH:
+        # urlparse does not perform validation of inputs. Unicode normalization
+        # is very slow on Windows and can be a DoS attack vector.
+        # https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html#url-parsing-security
         return False
     try:
         url_info = urlparse(url)