CVE-2024-41989

Aliases:GHSA-jh75-99hh-qvx9BIT-django-2024-41989PYSEC-2024-67
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Modified
Published: 07 Aug 2024, 00:00
Last modified:04 Nov 2025, 16:13

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
1.39% LOW
1% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 Aug 2024, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Nov 2025, 16:13
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The floatformat template filter is subject to significant memory consumption when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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
  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.39%• Percentile: 81%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Affected Systems

  • djangoproject•django

    ≥ 4.2, < 4.2.15 | ≥ 5.0, < 5.0.8

  • PyPI•django

    ≥ 5.0, < 5.0.8 | ≥ 4.2, < 4.2.15

References (12)