Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-45115
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/security/
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/jan/04/security-releases/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0005/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B4SQG2EAF4WCI2SLRL6XRDJ3RPK3ZRDV/