CVE-2023-24580
Passing certain inputs (e.g., an excessive number of parts) to multipart forms could result in too many open files or memory exhaustion, and provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 62.6%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
An issue was discovered in the Multipart Request Parser in Django 3.2 before 3.2.18, 4.0 before 4.0.10, and 4.1 before 4.1.7. Passing certain inputs (e.g., an excessive number of parts) to multipart forms could result in too many open files or memory exhaustion, and provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 62.58% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- djangoproject/django · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 62.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/14/1Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKYVMMR7RPM6AHJ2SBVM2LO6D3NGFY7B/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWY6DQWRVBALV73BPUVBXC3QIYUM24IK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTZVAKU5ALQWOKFTPISE257VCVIYGFQI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZS4G6NSZWPTVXMMZHJOJVQEPL3QTO77/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJB6FUBBLVKKG655UMTLQNN6UQ6EDLSP/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230316-0006/
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/feb/14/security-releases/Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/14/1Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKYVMMR7RPM6AHJ2SBVM2LO6D3NGFY7B/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWY6DQWRVBALV73BPUVBXC3QIYUM24IK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTZVAKU5ALQWOKFTPISE257VCVIYGFQI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZS4G6NSZWPTVXMMZHJOJVQEPL3QTO77/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJB6FUBBLVKKG655UMTLQNN6UQ6EDLSP/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230316-0006/
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/feb/14/security-releases/Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.