Vulnerability CVE-2023-46695


Published: 2023-11-02

Description:
An issue was discovered in Django 3.2 before 3.2.23, 4.1 before 4.1.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.7. The NFKC normalization is slow on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.forms.UsernameField is subject to a potential DoS (denial of service) attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.

 References:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/releases/security/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-announce
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/nov/01/security-releases/

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