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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-24680

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Django versions 3.2a1 through 3.2.23, 4.2a1 through 4.2.9, and 5.0a1 through 5.0.1. The "intcomma" template filter was subject to a potential Denial-of-Service attack when used with very long strings.

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

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published