Vulnerability advisory
CVE-2023-23969
Also known as BIT-django-2023-23969GHSA-q2jf-h9jm-m7p4PYSEC-2023-12
Severity
- CVSS 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected versions
Repository
| Affected commits | Fixed by commit |
|---|---|
| GIT github.com/django/django ↗ | |
| 3591e1c1acbd7c13174275367c3fdf012cb0413b to before aed1bb56d118937d5d6f3ec72f170779dd8c74cd | aed1bb56d118937d5d6f3ec72f170779dd8c74cd |
| ef62a3a68c9d558486145a42c0d71ea9a76add9e to before ca891ef44b27eb93890846615e0121037e6c8a35 | ca891ef44b27eb93890846615e0121037e6c8a35 |
| 9fee86e44dd83dc968ec443adcde191b3eba1286 to before f4909f7f7e5220e5a7eb9119beb959577263c63d | f4909f7f7e5220e5a7eb9119beb959577263c63d |
Description
In Django 3.2 before 3.2.17, 4.0 before 4.0.9, and 4.1 before 4.1.6, the parsed values of Accept-Language headers are cached in order to avoid repetitive parsing. This leads to a potential denial-of-service vector via excessive memory usage if the raw value of Accept-Language headers is very large.
References
- Webdocs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/security/ ↗
- Webgroups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce ↗
- Advisorygithub.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/23xxx/CVE-2023-23969.json ↗
- Advisorylists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWY6DQWRVBALV73BPUVBXC3QIYUM24IK/ ↗
- Advisorylists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTZVAKU5ALQWOKFTPISE257VCVIYGFQI/ ↗
- Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23969 ↗
- Advisorysecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230302-0007/ ↗
- ARTICLElists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00000.html ↗
- ARTICLEwww.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/feb/01/security-releases/ ↗