BIT-DJANGO-2024-56374

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 cleanipv6address and...

django: potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation

A flaw was found in the Django framework. 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 cleanipv6address and isvalidipv6address were vulnerable, as was the...