CVE-2021-45115: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
(updated )
An issue was discovered in Django. UserAttributeSimilarityValidator
incurred significant overhead in evaluating a submitted password that was artificially large in relation to the comparison values. In a situation where access to user registration was unrestricted, this provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.
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