CVE-2024-41991
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.91%Django vulnerable to denial-of-service attack
Published: 8/7/2024Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, and the AdminURLFieldWidget widget, are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.
Affected packages (4)
- Bitnami/django>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.15, >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.8
- Debian/python-djangofrom 0, < 2:2.2.28-1~deb11u11
- PyPI/django>= 5.0, < 5.0.8
- PyPI/django>= 5.0, < 5.0.8, >= 4.2, < 4.2.15
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (13)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41991
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-41991
- ADVISORYhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/
- PATCHhttps://github.com/django/django
- WEBhttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- WEBhttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/523da8771bce321023f490f70d71a9e973ddc927
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/efea1ef7e2190e3f77ca0651b5458297bc0f6a9f
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2024-69.yaml
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240905-0007
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240905-0007/
- WEBhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases