CVE-2019-14235

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. If passed certain inputs, django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri could lead to significant memory usage due to a recursion when repercent-encoding invalid UTF-8 octet sequences.

How to fix CVE-2019-14235

To remediate CVE-2019-14235, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.11.23-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.11.23-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 2:2.2.4-1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.11.23 or later
• —upgrade to 2.2.4 or later

Is CVE-2019-14235 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 6.8%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 1.11.23-r0
• from 0, < 1.11.23-r0
• from 0, < 2:2.2.4-1
• >= 1.11a1, < 1.11.23
• >= 2.2, < 2.2.4, >= 1.11, < 1.11.23, >= 2.1, < 2.1.11

CVSS scores

References (20)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-v9qg-3j8p-r63v
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14235
• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-14235
• ADVISORYsecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
• ADVISORY