SB2023110106 - Denial of service in Django on Windows
Published: November 1, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023110106
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46695)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources during NFKC normalization. A remote attacker can pass a very large number of Unicode characters to "django.contrib.auth.forms.UsernameField" and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability affects Windows installations only.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.