PT-2012-4716 · Django · Django

Kurt Seifried · Published 2012-07-31 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-3443

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions prior to 1.3.2 Django versions 1.4.x prior to 1.4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory consumption by uploading an image file. This is because the django.forms.ImageField class completely decompresses image data during image validation.

Recommendations For Django versions prior to 1.3.2, update to version 1.3.2 or later. For Django versions 1.4.x prior to 1.4.1, update to version 1.4.1 or later.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3443

DSA-2529-1

GHSA-59W8-4WM2-4XW8

PYSEC-2012-3

Affected Products

Django

References · 21

• https://djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/security-releases-issued · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2529 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1560-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2012-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3443 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:143 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2529 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1560-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-59w8-4wm2-4xw8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/django/django · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/da33d67181b53fe6cc737ac1220153814a1509f6 · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/9ca0ff6268eeff92d0d0ac2c315d4b6a8e229155 · Note