CVE-2023-46695

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    CVE-2023-46695

    Published: 2 Nov 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 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://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/46xxx/CVE-2023-46695.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46695, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0001/, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/nov/01/security-releases/

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3591e1c1acbd7c13174275367c3fdf012cb0413b
    Fixed -60e648a7ae033a9c2d1ab23a58402f57a1754df1

    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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