CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-46695
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 3.2 before 3.2.23, 4.1 before 4.1.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.7. The NFKC normalization is slow on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.forms.UsernameField is subject to a potential DoS (denial of service) attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.
Affected configurations
• djangoproject django (>= 3.2 < 3.2.23)
• djangoproject django (>= 4.1 < 4.1.13)
• djangoproject django (>= 4.2. < 4.2.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/releases/security/ Patch
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce Permissions Required
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/nov/01/security-releases/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/releases/security/ Patch
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce Permissions Required
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/nov/01/security-releases/ Patch, Vendor Advisory