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CVE-2024-38875: Django vulnerable to Denial of Service

July 10, 2024

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

References

  • docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-qg2p-9jwr-mmqf
  • github.com/django/django
  • github.com/django/django/commit/7285644640f085f41d60ab0c8ae4e9153f0485db
  • github.com/django/django/commit/79f368764295df109a37192f6182fb6f361d85b5
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2024-56.yaml
  • groups.google.com/forum/
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38875
  • www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.2 before 4.2.14, all versions starting from 5.0 before 5.0.7

Fixed versions

  • 4.2.14
  • 5.0.7

Solution

Upgrade to versions 4.2.14, 5.0.7 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

pypi/Django/CVE-2024-38875.yml

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