BIT-DJANGO-2026-25673 Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in URLField via Unicode normalization on Windows

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.3, 5.2 before 5.2.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.29. URLField.topython in Django calls urllib.parse.urlsplit, which performs NFKC normalization on Windows that is disproportionately slow for certain Unicode characters, allowing a remote attacker to cause denial o...