# CVE-2020-15225: Denial of Service vulnerability in django-filter

- Also known as: PYSEC-2021-64, GHSA-X7GM-RFGV-W973
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.4.0
- Published: 2021-04-29 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- carltongibson django-filter: fixed in 2.4.0
- django-filter (PyPI): fixed in 2.4.0
- django-filter (PyPI): fixed in 2.4.0

## Description

django-filter is a generic system for filtering Django QuerySets based on user selections. In django-filter before version 2.4.0, automatically generated `NumberFilter` instances, whose value was later converted to an integer, were subject to potential DoS from maliciously input using exponential format with sufficiently large exponents. Version 2.4.0+ applies a `MaxValueValidator` with a a default `limit_value` of 1e50 to the form field used by `NumberFilter` instances. In addition, `NumberFilter` implements the new `get_max_validator()` which should return a configured validator instance to customise the limit, or else `None` to disable the additional validation. Users may manually apply an equivalent validator if they are not able to upgrade.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/carltongibson/django-filter/security/advisories/GHSA-x7gm-rfgv-w973
- https://github.com/carltongibson/django-filter/commit/340cf7a23a2b3dcd7183f6a0d6c383e85b130d2b
- https://github.com/carltongibson/django-filter/releases/tag/2.4.0
- https://pypi.org/project/django-filter/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210604-0010/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DPHENTRHRAYFXYPPBT7JRHZRWILRY44S/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FAT2ZAEF6DM3VFSOHKB7X3ASSHGQHJAK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVJ7AYU6FUSU3F653YCGW5LFD3IULRSX/

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