CVE-2025-27556 (GCVE-0-2025-27556)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-02 00:00
Modified
2025-04-02 22:03
Severity ?
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.8 and 5.0 before 5.0.14. The NFKC normalization is slow on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.views.LoginView, django.contrib.auth.views.LogoutView, and django.views.i18n.set_language are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.
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Impacted products
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djangoproject Django Version: 5.0   < 5.0.14
Version: 5.1   < 5.1.8
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