django-wiki up to 0.10.0 on Django Article redos

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in django-wiki up to 0.10.0 on Django. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Article Handler. Such manipulation leads to redos. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-28865. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in django-wiki up to 0.10.0 on Django. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Article Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redos vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1333. The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

django-wiki is a wiki system for Django. Installations of django-wiki prior to version 0.10.1 are vulnerable to maliciously crafted article content that can cause severe use of server CPU through a regular expression loop. Version 0.10.1 fixes this issue. As a workaround, close off access to create and edit articles by anonymous users.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-28865 since 03/11/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1449.003.

Upgrading to version 0.10.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8e280fd6c0bd27ce847c67b2d216c6cbf920f88c is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

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VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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Class: Redos
CWE: CWE-1333 / CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: django-wiki 0.10.1
Patch: 8e280fd6c0bd27ce847c67b2d216c6cbf920f88c

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03/11/2024 🔍
03/19/2024 +8 days 🔍
03/19/2024 +0 days 🔍
01/13/2026 +665 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-28865 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-28865
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-257228

Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2024 05:01
Updated: 01/13/2026 16:37
Changes: 03/19/2024 05:01 (67), 01/13/2026 16:37 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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