djust provides Phoenix LiveView-style reactive server-side rendering for Django with Rust-powered performance

Overview

djust provides Phoenix LiveView-style reactive server-side rendering for Django with Rust-powered performance. Prior to version 1.0.7, the djust live transport resolves the LiveView to mount from a client-supplied dotted path by calling __import__(module_path, ...). The module is imported — running its top-level code (import side effects) — before the framework checks that the resolved object is a LiveView subclass and before any per-view authentication. The LIVEVIEW_ALLOWED_MODULES allowlist that should contain this is fail-open (if allowed_modules: — skipped when the setting is unset, the framework default) and uses loose startswith matching. An unauthenticated WebSocket client (the WS handshake does not require auth; per-view auth runs only after import + instantiate) can therefore send a mount / live_redirect_mount / url_change frame (or an SSE mount) with view = "<any.importable.module>.AnyName" and cause the server to import — and execute the top-level code of — any importable Python module by name. Version 1.0.7 fixes the issue with a fail-closed resolution gate (djust._view_resolution.is_view_import_allowed): a client view path resolves only if (a) its module is already loaded (sys.modules — so resolving runs no new code; URL-routed views loaded by URLconf at startup keep working with zero config) or (b) it matches LIVEVIEW_ALLOWED_MODULES on a module-segment boundary (explicit opt-in for lazily-imported views). The gate runs before __import__ at all three sinks (+ defense-in-depth inside _instantiate_view). As a workaround, set LIVEVIEW_ALLOWED_MODULES to the narrow list of modules that contain your mountable LiveView classes. (Note: pre-patch the allowlist is startswith-matched and the import still precedes the subclass check, so this is mitigation, not a complete fix.)

Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

Package advisory (CVE-2026-61599)

Affected packages:

• djust < 1.0.7

Patched in:

• djust 1.0.7

Source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7prp-2623-8g45