GHSA-4c42-4rxm-x6qf
Django Denial of Service Vulnerability in the authentication framework
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
The authentication framework (django.contrib.auth) in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.8, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password which is then hashed.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1443
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/22b74fa09d7ccbc8c52270d648a0da7f3f0fa2bc
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/3f3d887a6844ec2db743fee64c9e53e04d39a368
- https://github.com/django/django
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2013-18.yaml
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00035.html
- http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Set-a-reasonable-upper-bound-on-password-length-td5032218.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758