CVE-2024-38875

Aliases:GHSA-qg2p-9jwr-mmqfBIT-django-2024-38875PYSEC-2024-56
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 14
Modified
Published: 10 Jul 2024, 00:00
Last modified:04 Nov 2025, 16:12

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.3% LOW
0% probability -0.03%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

10 Jul 2024, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Nov 2025, 16:12
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.30%• Percentile: 54%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-130•Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

    The product parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data.

Affected Systems

  • djangoproject•django

    ≥ 4.2, < 4.2.14 | ≥ 5.0, < 5.0.7

  • PyPI•django

    ≥ 4.2, < 4.2.14 | ≥ 5.0, < 5.0.7

References (12)