THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-14235
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-14235

Django vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Djangoproject
Affected product
Django
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-08-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-14235

  • Confirm whether Djangoproject Django is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-14235.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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