PT-2013-3139 · Django · Django

Published 2013-09-19 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2013-1443

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 1.4.x through 1.4.7 Django versions 1.5.x through 1.5.3 Django versions 1.6.x through 1.6 beta 3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming CPU resources. This is achieved by providing a long password that is then hashed, exploiting the authentication framework in Django.

Recommendations For Django versions 1.4.x through 1.4.7, update to version 1.4.8 or later. For Django versions 1.5.x through 1.5.3, update to version 1.5.4 or later. For Django versions 1.6.x through 1.6 beta 3, update to version 1.6 beta 4 or later.

Fix

DoS

Improper Authentication

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-1443

DSA-2758-1

GHSA-4C42-4RXM-X6QF

MGASA-2013-0284

PYSEC-2013-18

Affected Products

Django

References · 20

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1443 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-4c42-4rxm-x6qf · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-1443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0284 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00035.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2013-18 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0284.html · Security Note
• https://github.com/django/django · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/3f3d887a6844ec2db743fee64c9e53e04d39a368 · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/22b74fa09d7ccbc8c52270d648a0da7f3f0fa2bc · Note