CVE-2024-45230 (GCVE-0-2024-45230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-08 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-17 14:12
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.1, 5.0 before 5.0.9, and 4.2 before 4.2.16. The urlize() and urlizetrunc() template filters are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
djangoproject django Affected: 5.1 , < 5.1.1 (custom)
Affected: 5.0 , < 5.0.9 (custom)
Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.16 (custom)
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