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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-41989

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Django versions through 4.2.14, 5.0a1 through 5.0.7, and 5.1a1 through 5.1rc1. The "floatformat" template filter is subject to significant memory consumption when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • 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