Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU32403

Resource management error in Django - CVE-2015-5145

Published: July 14, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU32403

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5145

CWE-ID: CWE-399

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

validators.URLValidator in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Django
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
py-django (Alpine package)
Django14
python-django

Install update from vendor's website.

Django - update to 1.8.3
py-django (Alpine package) - update to 1.7.9-r0
Django14 - update to 1.4.21-1.el6
python-django - update to 1.8.3-1.fc22