The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data…

Description

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• PyPIDjangoGHSA-59w8-4wm2-4xw8 (opens in a new tab)

References (6)

• [oss-security] 20120730 CVE Request: Django 1.3.1 and 1.4.0 security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/security-releases-issued/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2012:143 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• USN-1560-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20120730 Re: CVE Request: Django 1.3.1 and 1.4.0 security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• DSA-2529 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-59w8-4wm2-4xw8 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 20:05 UTC.