GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-qmf9-6jqf-j8fq Django potential denial of service vulnerability in UsernameField on Windows
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-46695
- 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
- 2023-11-02
Affected packages
• PyPI Django: >= 3.2a1, < 3.2.23 → fixed in 3.2.23
• PyPI Django: >= 4.1a1, < 4.1.13 → fixed in 4.1.13
• PyPI Django: >= 4.2a1, < 4.2.7 → fixed in 4.2.7
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-46695 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. vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46695 advisory
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/048a9ebb6ea468426cb4e57c71572cbbd975517f web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/4965bfdde2e5a5c883685019e57d123a3368a75e web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/f9a7fb8466a7ba4857eaf930099b5258f3eafb2b web
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/releases/security web
- https://github.com/django/django package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2023-222.yaml web
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-announce web
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0001 web
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/nov/01/security-releases web