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CVE-2023-36053: Django has regular expression denial of service vulnerability in EmailValidator/URLValidator

July 3, 2023 (updated September 20, 2024)

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.20, 4 before 4.1.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.3, EmailValidator and URLValidator are subject to a potential ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) attack via a very large number of domain name labels of emails and URLs.

References

  • docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/releases/security
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-jh3w-4vvf-mjgr
  • github.com/django/django
  • github.com/django/django/commit/454f2fb93437f98917283336201b4048293f7582
  • github.com/django/django/commit/ad0410ec4f458aa39803e5f6b9a3736527062dcd
  • github.com/django/django/commit/b7c5feb35a31799de6e582ad6a5a91a9de74e0f9
  • github.com/django/django/commit/beb3f3d55940d9aa7198bf9d424ab74e873aec3d
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2023-100.yaml
  • groups.google.com/forum/
  • groups.google.com/forum/
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00022.html
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NRDGTUN4LTI6HG4TWR3JYLSFVXPZT42A
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XG5DYKPNDCEHJQ3TKPJQO7QGSR4FAYMS
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NRDGTUN4LTI6HG4TWR3JYLSFVXPZT42A
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XG5DYKPNDCEHJQ3TKPJQO7QGSR4FAYMS
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36053
  • www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5465
  • www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/jul/03/security-releases

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 3.2a1 before 3.2.20, all versions starting from 4.0a1 before 4.1.10, all versions starting from 4.2a1 before 4.2.3

Fixed versions

  • 3.2.20
  • 4.1.10
  • 4.2.3

Solution

Upgrade to versions 3.2.20, 4.1.10, 4.2.3 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Source file

pypi/Django/CVE-2023-36053.yml

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