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CVE-2019-6975 (GCVE-0-2019-6975)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-11 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 20:38
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Summary
Django 1.11.x before 1.11.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.11, and 2.1.x before 2.1.6 allows Uncontrolled Memory Consumption via a malicious attacker-supplied value to the django.utils.numberformat.format() function.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2019-02-11 00:00
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