CVE-2022-41323

Advisory

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.16, 4.0 before 4.0.8, and 4.1 before 4.1.2, internationalized URLs were subject to a potential denial of service attack via the locale parameter, which is treated as a regular expression.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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*October 4, 2022*

Django 3.2.16 fixes a security issue with severity "medium" in 3.2.15.

CVE-2022-41323: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in internationalized URLs
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Internationalized URLs were subject to potential denial of service attack via
the locale parameter.


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Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-41323
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/security/
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/5b6b257fa7ec37ff27965358800c67e2dd11c924
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/oct/04/security-releases/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-announce
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221124-0001/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VZS4G6NSZWPTVXMMZHJOJVQEPL3QTO77/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FKYVMMR7RPM6AHJ2SBVM2LO6D3NGFY7B/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YJB6FUBBLVKKG655UMTLQNN6UQ6EDLSP/