In Django 3.2 before 3.2.16, 4.0 before 4.0.8, and 4.1 before 4.1.2, internationalized URLs were subject to a potential denial of service at

Summary

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.16, 4.0 before 4.0.8, and 4.1 before 4.1.2, internationalized URLs were subject to a potential denial of service attack via the locale parameter, which is treated as a regular expression.

Timeline

1. Oct 16, 2022, 12:00 AM UTCCVE published
2. May 14, 2025, 2:39 PM UTCCISA SSVC assessment

   Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

3. May 14, 2025, 2:39 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• n/a n/a

  Version range not reported

• djangoPyPI

  From 3.2 · fixed in 3.2.16

• djangoPyPI

  From 4.0 · fixed in 4.0.8

• djangoPyPI

  From 4.1 · fixed in 4.1.2

• djangoPyPI

  From 3.2 · fixed in 3.2.16; From 4.0 · fixed in 4.0.8; From 4.1 · fixed in 4.1.2

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