BIT-django-2023-46695

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    BIT-django-2023-46695

    Published: 6 Mar 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Django 3.2 before 3.2.23, 4.1 before 4.1.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.7. The NFKC normalization is slow on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.forms.UsernameField is subject to a potential DoS (denial of service) attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.

    References: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/releases/security/, https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0001/, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/nov/01/security-releases/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46695

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: django

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/django

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 3.2.0
    Fixed -3.2.23

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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