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CVE-2021-45115
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-01-05T00:15:07.907 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:13:11.547

Summary

An issue was discovered in Django 2.2 before 2.2.26, 3.2 before 3.2.11, and 4.0 before 4.0.1. UserAttributeSimilarityValidator incurred significant overhead in evaluating a submitted password that was artificially large in relation to the comparison values. In a situation where access to user registration was unrestricted, this provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.

Affected products

djangoproject — django

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References

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