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CVE-2021-45115

Safety vulnerability ID: 44423

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Created at Jan 05, 2022 Updated at Dec 04, 2024
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Advisory

Django 2.2.26, 3.2.11 and 4.0.1 include a fix for CVE-2021-45115: 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.
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/jan/04/security-releases/

Affected package

django

Latest version: 5.1.4

A high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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*January 4, 2022*

Django 2.2.26 fixes one security issue with severity "medium" and two security
issues with severity "low" in 2.2.25.

CVE-2021-45115: Denial-of-service possibility in ``UserAttributeSimilarityValidator``
=====================================================================================

:class:`.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator` incurred significant overhead
evaluating submitted password that were artificially large in relative to the
comparison values. On the assumption that access to user registration was
unrestricted this provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.

In order to mitigate this issue, relatively long values are now ignored by
``UserAttributeSimilarityValidator``.

This issue has severity "medium" according to the :ref:`Django security policy
<security-disclosure>`.

CVE-2021-45116: Potential information disclosure in ``dictsort`` template filter
================================================================================

Due to leveraging the Django Template Language's variable resolution logic, the
:tfilter:`dictsort` template filter was potentially vulnerable to information
disclosure or unintended method calls, if passed a suitably crafted key.

In order to avoid this possibility, ``dictsort`` now works with a restricted
resolution logic, that will not call methods, nor allow indexing on
dictionaries.

As a reminder, all untrusted user input should be validated before use.

This issue has severity "low" according to the :ref:`Django security policy
<security-disclosure>`.

CVE-2021-45452: Potential directory-traversal via ``Storage.save()``
====================================================================

``Storage.save()`` allowed directory-traversal if directly passed suitably
crafted file names.

This issue has severity "low" according to the :ref:`Django security policy
<security-disclosure>`.


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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

HIGH 7.5

CVSS v3 Details

HIGH 7.5
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
NONE
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 5.0
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
NONE
Availability Impact (A)
PARTIAL