CVE-2021-45115
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 2.2 before 2.2.26, 3.2 before 3.2.11, and 4.0 before 4.0.1. UserAttributeSimilarityValidator incurred significant overhead in evaluating a submitted password that was artificially large in relation to the comparison values. In a situation where access to user registration was unrestricted, this provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/security/ ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/security/Patch
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/jan/04/security-releases/Patch
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B4SQG2EAF4WCI2SLRL6XRDJ3RPK3ZRDV/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0005/Advisory