THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2023-24580
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2023-24580

Django vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
62.6%
EPSS pct
99th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in the Multipart Request Parser in Django 3.2 before 3.2.18, 4.0 before 4.0.10, and 4.1 before 4.1.7. Passing certain inputs (e.g., an excessive number of parts) to multipart forms could result in too many open files or memory exhaustion, and provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.
Affected vendor
Djangoproject
Affected product
Django
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2023-02-15

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 62.6% reflects a high probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2023-24580

  • Confirm whether Djangoproject Django is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2023-24580.
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