High severity · published Aug 2, 2019
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
7.5
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DJ
Django · Djangoproject
1.11 before 1.11.23; 2.1 before 2.1.11; 2.2 before 2.2.4 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14235
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14235
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
Patch
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
groups.google.com
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
seclists.org
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
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