Fixed #36743 -- Increased URL max length enforced in HttpResponseRedirectBase.

Refs CVE-2025-64458.

The previous limit of 2048 characters reused the URLValidator constant
and proved too restrictive for legitimate redirects to some third-party
services. This change introduces a separate `MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH`
constant (defaulting to 16384) and uses it in HttpResponseRedirectBase.

Thanks Jacob Walls for report and review.

django/http/response.py

@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ from django.utils import timezone
 from django.utils.datastructures import CaseInsensitiveMapping
 from django.utils.encoding import iri_to_uri
 from django.utils.functional import cached_property
-from django.utils.http import MAX_URL_LENGTH, content_disposition_header, http_date
+from django.utils.http import (
+    MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH,
+    content_disposition_header,
+    http_date,
+)
 from django.utils.regex_helper import _lazy_re_compile
 
 _charset_from_content_type_re = _lazy_re_compile(
@@ -632,9 +636,9 @@ class HttpResponseRedirectBase(HttpResponse):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self["Location"] = iri_to_uri(redirect_to)
         redirect_to_str = str(redirect_to)
-        if len(redirect_to_str) > MAX_URL_LENGTH:
+        if len(redirect_to_str) > MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH:
             raise DisallowedRedirect(
-                f"Unsafe redirect exceeding {MAX_URL_LENGTH} characters"
+                f"Unsafe redirect exceeding {MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH} characters"
             )
         parsed = urlsplit(redirect_to_str)
         if preserve_request:

django/utils/http.py

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ ASCTIME_DATE = _lazy_re_compile(r"^\w{3} %s %s %s %s$" % (__M, __D2, __T, __Y))
 RFC3986_GENDELIMS = ":/?#[]@"
 RFC3986_SUBDELIMS = "!$&'()*+,;="
 MAX_URL_LENGTH = 2048
+MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH = 16384
 
 
 def urlencode(query, doseq=False):

docs/releases/5.2.9.txt

@@ -21,3 +21,8 @@ Bugfixes
 * Fixed a regression in Django 5.2.2 that caused a crash when using aggregate
   functions with an empty ``Q`` filter over a queryset with annotations
   (:ticket:`36751`).
+
+* Fixed a regression in Django 5.2.8 where ``DisallowedRedirect`` was raised by
+  :class:`~django.http.HttpResponseRedirect` and
+  :class:`~django.http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect` for URLs longer than 2048
+  characters. The limit is now 16384 characters (:ticket:`36743`).

tests/httpwrappers/tests.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from django.http import (
 )
 from django.test import SimpleTestCase
 from django.utils.functional import lazystr
-from django.utils.http import MAX_URL_LENGTH
+from django.utils.http import MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH
 
 
 class QueryDictTests(SimpleTestCase):
@@ -486,12 +486,25 @@ class HttpResponseTests(SimpleTestCase):
         r.writelines(["foo\n", "bar\n", "baz\n"])
         self.assertEqual(r.content, b"foo\nbar\nbaz\n")
 
+    def test_redirect_url_max_length(self):
+        base_url = "https://example.com/"
+        for length in (
+            MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH - 1,
+            MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH,
+        ):
+            long_url = base_url + "x" * (length - len(base_url))
+            with self.subTest(length=length):
+                response = HttpResponseRedirect(long_url)
+                self.assertEqual(response.url, long_url)
+                response = HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(long_url)
+                self.assertEqual(response.url, long_url)
+
     def test_unsafe_redirect(self):
         bad_urls = [
             'data:text/html,<script>window.alert("xss")</script>',
             "mailto:test@example.com",
             "file:///etc/passwd",
-            "é" * (MAX_URL_LENGTH + 1),
+            "é" * (MAX_URL_REDIRECT_LENGTH + 1),
         ]
         for url in bad_urls:
             with self.assertRaises(DisallowedRedirect):