GHSA-qcgg-j2x8-h9g8MediumCVSS 5.8

Django has a potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation

Published
January 14, 2025
Last Modified
May 20, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.5, 5.0 before 5.0.11, and 4.2 before 4.2.18. Lack of upper-bound limit enforcement in strings passed when performing IPv6 validation could lead to a potential denial-of-service attack. The undocumented and private functions clean_ipv6_address and is_valid_ipv6_address are vulnerable, as is the django.forms.GenericIPAddressField form field. (The django.db.models.GenericIPAddressField model field is not affected.)

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/Django:>= 5.1, < 5.1.5
  • pip/Django:>= 5.0, < 5.0.11
  • pip/Django:>= 4.2, < 4.2.18

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