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Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-59w8-4wm2-4xw8

Django Image Field Vulnerable to Image Decompression Bombs

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Also known as CVE-2012-3443PYSEC-2012-3

Severity
  • CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected versions

django PyPI

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AffectedFixed in
All versions before 1.3.21.3.2Advisories →
Also listed as affected (19)
1.4 to before 1.4.11.4.1Advisories →
Also listed as affected (1)

Description

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

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