CVE-2013-1443
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Improper authentication
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The authentication framework (django.contrib.auth) in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.8, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password which is then hashed.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/ ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00035.html
- http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Set-a-reasonable-upper-bound-on-password-length-td5032218.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758