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CVE-2023-24580 — Resource exhaustion in django — CVE Details

HIGH

Resource exhaustion in Django

Published February 15, 2023Updated March 19, 2025Source: osv

What Should I Do?

Low-to-Moderate Risk

Exploitation probability is 22.12% in 30 days. Address in your next planned sprint.

Summary

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.

Advisory Timeline

  • First published February 15, 2023 (1335 days ago).
  • Last revised March 19, 2025 — 764 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

pip
Update django to 3.2.18 or later
pip install "django>=3.2.18"
pip
Update django to 4.1.7 or later
pip install "django>=4.1.7"
pip
Update django to 4.0.10 or later
pip install "django>=4.0.10"

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (3)

Affects 1 ecosystem: pypi (1).

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed In
django
pypi
3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.10, 3.2.11 (+17 more)3.2.18
django
pypi
4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3 (+6 more)4.1.7
django
pypi
4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3 (+9 more)4.0.10

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

  • CWE-400
    Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionMITRE

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 7.5 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2023-24580?
Resource exhaustion in Django This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of HIGH (CVSS score: 7.5/10).
How do I check if my project is affected by CVE-2023-24580?
CVE-2023-24580 affects django. It has a 22.1% probability of exploitation within 30 days (EPSS score). Use GeekWala's free vulnerability scanner to check your dependencies against CVE-2023-24580 and 200,000+ other known vulnerabilities.

Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score
7.5

High exploitability or significant impact. Prioritize remediation within days.

EPSS Score (30-day exploit probability)
22.12%
Higher than 96% of vulnerabilities

This places it in the top 5% of EPSS-scored vulnerabilities — 95.7% of tracked vulnerabilities score at or below it, so it is far more likely to be exploited than nearly all other tracked vulnerabilities.

Also Known As

GHSA-2hrw-hx67-34x6
BIT-django-2023-24580
PYSEC-2023-13

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