Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting python-django package, versions <2:3.2.12-2ubuntu1.7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-PYTHONDJANGO-5753286
  • published5 Jul 2023
  • disclosed3 Jul 2023

Introduced: 3 Jul 2023

CVE-2023-36053  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:22.04 python-django to version 2:3.2.12-2ubuntu1.7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-django package and not the python-django package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:22.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.20, 4 before 4.1.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.3, EmailValidator and URLValidator are subject to a potential ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) attack via a very large number of domain name labels of emails and URLs.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1