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Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Django

CVE-2024-38875

  • Django
Severity High
Score 8.7/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Django versions prior to 4.2.14, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.7, 5.1a1, and 5.1b1. "urlize" and "urlizetrunc" were subject to a potential Denial of Service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-130 - Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

The software parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published