[5.1.x] Fixed CVE-2025-13372 -- Protected FilteredRelation against SQL injection in column aliases on PostgreSQL.

Follow-up to CVE-2025-57833.

Thanks Stackered for the report, and Simon Charette and Mariusz Felisiak
for the reviews.

Backport of 5b90ca1e75 from main.

django/db/backends/postgresql/compiler.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from django.db.models.sql.compiler import (  # isort:skip
+    SQLAggregateCompiler,
+    SQLCompiler as BaseSQLCompiler,
+    SQLDeleteCompiler,
+    SQLInsertCompiler,
+    SQLUpdateCompiler,
+)
+
+__all__ = [
+    "SQLAggregateCompiler",
+    "SQLCompiler",
+    "SQLDeleteCompiler",
+    "SQLInsertCompiler",
+    "SQLUpdateCompiler",
+]
+
+
+class SQLCompiler(BaseSQLCompiler):
+    def quote_name_unless_alias(self, name):
+        if "$" in name:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Dollar signs are not permitted in column aliases on PostgreSQL."
+            )
+        return super().quote_name_unless_alias(name)

django/db/backends/postgresql/operations.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def get_json_dumps(encoder):
 
 
 class DatabaseOperations(BaseDatabaseOperations):
+    compiler_module = "django.db.backends.postgresql.compiler"
     cast_char_field_without_max_length = "varchar"
     explain_prefix = "EXPLAIN"
     explain_options = frozenset(

docs/releases/4.2.27.txt

@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ Django 4.2.27 release notes
 Django 4.2.27 fixes one security issue with severity "high", one security issue
 with severity "moderate", and one bug in 4.2.26.
 
+CVE-2025-13372: Potential SQL injection in ``FilteredRelation`` column aliases on PostgreSQL
+============================================================================================
+
+:class:`.FilteredRelation` was subject to SQL injection in column aliases,
+using a suitably crafted dictionary, with dictionary expansion, as the
+``**kwargs`` passed to :meth:`.QuerySet.annotate` or :meth:`.QuerySet.alias` on
+PostgreSQL.
+
 Bugfixes
 ========
 

docs/releases/5.1.15.txt

@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ Django 5.1.15 release notes
 Django 5.1.15 fixes one security issue with severity "high", one security issue
 with severity "moderate", and one bug in 5.1.14.
 
+CVE-2025-13372: Potential SQL injection in ``FilteredRelation`` column aliases on PostgreSQL
+============================================================================================
+
+:class:`.FilteredRelation` was subject to SQL injection in column aliases,
+using a suitably crafted dictionary, with dictionary expansion, as the
+``**kwargs`` passed to :meth:`.QuerySet.annotate` or :meth:`.QuerySet.alias` on
+PostgreSQL.
+
 Bugfixes
 ========
 

tests/annotations/tests.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import datetime
 from decimal import Decimal
 
 from django.core.exceptions import FieldDoesNotExist, FieldError
+from django.db import connection
 from django.db.models import (
     BooleanField,
     Case,
@@ -1454,3 +1455,14 @@ class AliasTests(TestCase):
         )
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValueError, msg):
             Book.objects.alias(**{crafted_alias: FilteredRelation("authors")})
+
+    def test_alias_filtered_relation_sql_injection_dollar_sign(self):
+        qs = Book.objects.alias(
+            **{"crafted_alia$": FilteredRelation("authors")}
+        ).values("name", "crafted_alia$")
+        if connection.vendor == "postgresql":
+            msg = "Dollar signs are not permitted in column aliases on PostgreSQL."
+            with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValueError, msg):
+                list(qs)
+        else:
+            self.assertEqual(qs.first()["name"], self.b1.name)