CVE-2023-23969
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-01 00:00
Modified
2025-03-27 14:17
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWY6DQWRVBALV73BPUVBXC3QIYUM24IK/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTZVAKU5ALQWOKFTPISE257VCVIYGFQI/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230302-0007/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/feb/01/security-releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWY6DQWRVBALV73BPUVBXC3QIYUM24IK/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTZVAKU5ALQWOKFTPISE257VCVIYGFQI/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230302-0007/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/feb/01/security-releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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