CVE-2024-38875 — Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Django

CWE-130 — Improper Handling of Length Parameter InconsistencyCWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingCWE-1287 — Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input12 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 44.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Djangoproject Django
Timeline
PublishedJul 10
Latest updateAug 23

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDdjangoproject/django4.2 — 4.2.14+1
▶PyPIdjangoproject/django4.2 — 4.2.14+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
OSV
python-django vulnerabilities↗2024-07-11
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GHSA
Django vulnerable to Denial of Service↗2024-07-10
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OSV
CVE-2024-38875: An issue was discovered in Django 4↗2024-07-10
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CVEList
CVE-2024-38875: An issue was discovered in Django 4↗2024-07-10
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OSV
Django vulnerable to Denial of Service↗2024-07-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
python-django: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.urlize()↗2024-07-26
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Ubuntu
Django vulnerabilities↗2024-07-11
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Ubuntu
Django vulnerabilities↗2024-07-09
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Debian
CVE-2024-38875: python-django - An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize...↗2024
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💬Community

1
HackerOne
CVE-2024-38875: Denial-Of-Service through uncontrolled resource consumption caused by poor time complexity of strip_punctuation .↗2024-08-23
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CVE-2024-38875 — Djangoproject Django vulnerability | cvebase