Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting django package, versions [,4.2.15) [5.0,5.0.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-7642813
  • published 7 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 6 Aug 2024
  • credit Elias Myllymäki

How to fix?

Upgrade django to version 4.2.15, 5.0.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via the floatformat() template filter, when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    Low
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None