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PYSEC-2024-67

Details

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The floatformat template filter is subject to significant memory consumption when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent.

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Affected packages

PyPI / django

Introduced in: 5.0 Fixed in: 5.0.8

Fix pip install --upgrade 'django>=4.2.15'

References

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ [WEB]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce [WEB]
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/ [ARTICLE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jh75-99hh-qvx9 [ADVISORY]