CVE-2024-39614

2024-07-0900:00:00

ubuntu.com

vulnerability

denial-of-service

attack

long strings

language variant

unix

cve-2024-39614

AI Score

6.1

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.8%

JSON

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.7 and 4.2 before 4.2.14.
get_supported_language_variant() was subject to a potential
denial-of-service attack when used with very long strings containing
specific characters.

Notes

Author	Note
alexmurray	upstream advises that only versions 4.2, 5.0 and 5.1 (plus main development branch) are affected but it is likely earlier versions may also be affected but upstream do not mention this as they are no longer maintained by them

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchpython-django< 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.21+esm5UNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchpython-django< 2:2.2.12-1ubuntu0.23UNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchpython-django< 2:3.2.12-2ubuntu1.12UNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchpython-django< 3:4.2.4-1ubuntu2.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchpython-django< 3:4.2.11-1ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchpython-django< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchpython-django< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	python-django	< 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.21+esm5	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	python-django	< 2:2.2.12-1ubuntu0.23	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	python-django	< 2:3.2.12-2ubuntu1.12	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	23.10	noarch	python-django	< 3:4.2.4-1ubuntu2.3	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	python-django	< 3:4.2.11-1ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	python-django	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	python-django	< any	UNKNOWN