CVE-2019-14235
An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.07%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. If passed certain inputs, django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri could lead to significant memory usage due to a recursion when repercent-encoding invalid UTF-8 octet sequences.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.07% probability · 88th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-674
- Affected
- djangoproject/django · opensuse/leap
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.