CVE-2012-3443

medium

Description

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/security-releases-issued/

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1560-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:143

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2529

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-07-31

Updated: 2013-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium