Uncontrolled Memory Consumption Affecting django package, versions [1.11.0,1.11.19)[2.0.0,2.0.11)[2.1.0,2.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.27% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-173679
  • published11 Feb 2019
  • disclosed11 Feb 2019
  • creditCarlton Gibson

Introduced: 11 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-6975  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Django to version 1.11.19, 2.0.11, 2.1.6 or higher.

Overview

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Memory Consumption. If django.utils.numberformat.format() that is used by contrib.admin as well as the the floatformat, filesizeformat, and intcomma templates filters - received a Decimal with a large number of digits or a large exponent, it could lead to significant memory usage due to a call to {:f}'.format().

CVSS Scores

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