CVE-2013-1443

medium

Description

The authentication framework (django.contrib.auth) in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.8, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password which is then hashed.

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758

http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Set-a-reasonable-upper-bound-on-password-length-td5032218.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00035.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-23

Updated: 2014-01-28

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