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CVE-2023-46695PYSEC-2023-222BIT-DJANGO-2023-46695GHSA-QMF9-6JQF-J8FQ

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.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.2.23, 4.1.13, 4.2.7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • djangoPyPI

    From 3.2 · fixed in 3.2.23; From 4.1 · fixed in 4.1.13; From 4.2 · fixed in 4.2.7

  • djangoPyPI

    From 3.2a1 · fixed in 3.2.23

  • djangoPyPI

    From 4.1a1 · fixed in 4.1.13

  • djangoPyPI

    From 4.2a1 · fixed in 4.2.7

References 4

groups.google.com

docs.djangoproject.com

djangoproject.com

security.netapp.com