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CVE-2024-41989 (GCVE-0-2024-41989)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:13
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The floatformat template filter is subject to significant memory consumption when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-08 19:34 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
djangoproject django Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.15 (custom)
Affected: 5.0 , < 5.0.8 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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