CVE-2025-53942

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Para solucionar este problema, los desarrolladores pueden agregar una pol\u00edtica de expresi\u00f3n a la etapa de inicio de sesi\u00f3n del usuario en el flujo de autenticaci\u00f3n correspondiente con la expresi\u00f3n `return request.context[\"pending_user\"].is_active`. Esta modificaci\u00f3n garantiza que la declaraci\u00f3n `return` solo active la etapa de inicio de sesi\u00f3n del usuario cuando este est\u00e9 activo. 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