SB2019080667 - Fedora 30 update for python-django

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14232)

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters in django.utils.text.Truncator during evaluation of HTML content. A remote attacker can pass large content in HTML format to the application and trigger resource exhaustion.

2) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14233)

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of django.utils.html.strip_tags() during evaluation of HTML content. A remote attacker can pass large content in HTML format to the application and trigger resource exhaustion.

3) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14234)

CWE-ID: CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in django.contrib.postgres.fields.JSONField and django.contrib.postgres.fields.HStoreField. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.

4) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14235)

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when parsing URF-8 data with django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri(). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted content to the application and consume all available memory on the system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-647f74ce51