FreeBSD : Django -- multiple vulnerabilities (4ee7fa77-19a6-11ee-8a05-080027eda32c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 177894

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 4ee7fa77-19a6-11ee-8a05-080027eda32c advisory.

- In Django 3.2 before 3.2.20, 4 before 4.1.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.3, EmailValidator and URLValidator are subject to a potential ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) attack via a very large number of domain name labels of emails and URLs. (CVE-2023-36053)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/jul/03/security-releases/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e51cf1e9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 177894

File Name: freebsd_pkg_4ee7fa7719a611ee8a05080027eda32c.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2023

Updated: 7/12/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36053

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py310-django32, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py311-django32, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py39-django32, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py39-django42, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py38-django32, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py311-django41, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py310-django42, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py310-django41, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py311-django42, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py38-django41, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py38-django42, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py39-django41

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36053