GHSA-7wph-fc4w-wqp2MediumCVSS 7.5

Improper date handling in Django

Published
July 23, 2018
Last Modified
May 19, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The password reset functionality in django.contrib.auth in Django before 1.1.3, 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.3.x before 1.3 beta 1 does not validate the length of a string representing a base36 timestamp, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a URL that specifies a large base36 integer.

🎯 Affected products2

  • pip/django:< 1.1.3
  • pip/Django:>= 1.2, < 1.2.4

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