IPv6 Validation Vulnerability in Django Framework
CVE-2024-56374

5.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Djangoproject

Status
Django
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 January 2025

What is CVE-2024-56374?

A vulnerability has been identified in prior versions of the Django framework that lacks proper upper-bound limit enforcement during IPv6 validation. This oversight affects functions like 'clean_ipv6_address' and 'is_valid_ipv6_address', as well as the 'GenericIPAddressField' form field. Exploitation of this issue could potentially allow an attacker to initiate a denial-of-service attack, impacting the availability of the application.

Affected Version(s)

Django 4.2 < 4.2.18

Django 5.0 < 5.0.11

Django 5.1 < 5.1.5

References

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jan/14/security...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

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