An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.7 and 4.2 before 4.2.14. get_supported_language_variant() was subject to a potential denial-of-service attack when used with very long strings containing specific characters.
Weakness
The product parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Django | Djangoproject | 4.2 (including) | 4.2.14 (excluding) |
| Django | Djangoproject | 5.0 (including) | 5.0.7 (excluding) |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8:1.0.2-10 | * |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | automation-controller-0:4.5.10-1.el8ap | * |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | python3x-django-0:4.2.15-1.el8ap | * |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 | RedHat | automation-controller-0:4.5.10-1.el9ap | * |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 | RedHat | python-django-0:4.2.15-1.el9ap | * |
| Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0 | RedHat | python-django-0:3.2.12-8.el9ost | * |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | python-django-0:4.2.16-1.el8pc | * |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | python-django-0:4.2.16-1.el8pc | * |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 | RedHat | python-django-0:4.2.16-1.el9pc | * |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 | RedHat | python-django-0:4.2.16-1.el9pc | * |
| RHUI 4 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | python-django-0:4.2.15-1.el8ui | * |
| Python-django | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Python-django | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Python-django | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Python-django | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Python-django | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Python-django | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Python-django | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
References
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240808-0005/
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/