GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-q2jf-h9jm-m7p4 Django contains Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via cached header

HIGH Published 2023-02-01 Modified 2024-09-20 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-23969
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
Django
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770
Reviewed
2023-02-03

Affected packages

• PyPI Django: >= 3.2a1, < 3.2.17 → fixed in 3.2.17 • PyPI Django: >= 4.0a1, < 4.0.9 → fixed in 4.0.9 • PyPI Django: >= 4.1a1, < 4.1.6 → fixed in 4.1.6

Description

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.17, 4.0 before 4.0.9, and 4.1 before 4.1.6, the parsed values of Accept-Language headers are cached in order to avoid repetitive parsing. This leads to a potential denial-of-service vector via excessive memory usage if the raw value of Accept-Language headers is very large.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-23969 In Django 3.2 before 3.2.17, 4.0 before 4.0.9, and 4.1 before 4.1.6, the parsed values of Accept-Language headers are cached in order to… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References