CVE-2024-38875

Se descubrió un problema en Django 4.2 anterior a 4.2.14 y 5.0 anterior a 5.0.7. urlize y urlizetrunc estuvieron sujetos a un posible ataque de denegación de servicio a través de ciertas entradas con una gran cantidad de corchetes.

A vulnerability was found in the Django framework's urlize and urlizetrunc functions, where an attacker can input a certain string containing a large number of brackets, leads to a potential denial of service when the application attempts to process the excessive input.

Elias Myllymäki discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain inputs with a large number of brackets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to consume resources or stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled authenticating users with unusable passwords. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and enumerate users.