Django up to 4.2.15/5.0.8/5.1.0 django.utils.html.urlize denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Django up to 4.2.15/5.0.8/5.1.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function django.utils.html.urlize. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-45230. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Django up to 4.2.15/5.0.8/5.1.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function django.utils.html.urlize. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-45230 since 08/24/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209894 (RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Release Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:8534)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.2.16, 5.0.9 or 5.1.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at docs.djangoproject.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (209894) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-0037). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Django

Version

• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.2.8
• 4.2.9
• 4.2.10
• 4.2.11
• 4.2.12
• 4.2.13
• 4.2.14
• 4.2.15
• 5.0
• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.0.3
• 5.0.4
• 5.0.5
• 5.0.6
• 5.0.7
• 5.0.8
• 5.1.0

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• open-source

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