7.5
HIGH CVSS 3.0
CVE-2019-6975
Django Uncontrolled Memory Consumption Vulnerability
Description

Django 1.11.x before 1.11.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.11, and 2.1.x before 2.1.6 allows Uncontrolled Memory Consumption via a malicious attacker-supplied value to the django.utils.numberformat.format() function.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 11, 2019, 1:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:47 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-6975 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Djangoproject django
: Total Affected Vendor : 3 | Products : 3
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 HIGH [email protected]
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-6975 has a 12 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-6975.

URL Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/10
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3890-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4476
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/10
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3890-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4476
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-6975 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-6975 weaknesses.

CAPEC-125: Flooding Flooding CAPEC-130: Excessive Allocation Excessive Allocation CAPEC-147: XML Ping of the Death XML Ping of the Death CAPEC-197: Exponential Data Expansion Exponential Data Expansion CAPEC-229: Serialized Data Parameter Blowup Serialized Data Parameter Blowup CAPEC-230: Serialized Data with Nested Payloads Serialized Data with Nested Payloads CAPEC-231: Oversized Serialized Data Payloads Oversized Serialized Data Payloads CAPEC-469: HTTP DoS HTTP DoS CAPEC-482: TCP Flood TCP Flood CAPEC-486: UDP Flood UDP Flood CAPEC-487: ICMP Flood ICMP Flood CAPEC-488: HTTP Flood HTTP Flood CAPEC-489: SSL Flood SSL Flood CAPEC-490: Amplification Amplification CAPEC-491: Quadratic Data Expansion Quadratic Data Expansion CAPEC-493: SOAP Array Blowup SOAP Array Blowup CAPEC-494: TCP Fragmentation TCP Fragmentation CAPEC-495: UDP Fragmentation UDP Fragmentation CAPEC-496: ICMP Fragmentation ICMP Fragmentation CAPEC-528: XML Flood XML Flood

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-6975 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-6975 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964
    Added Reference https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
    Added Reference https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/
    Added Reference https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/10
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3890-1/
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4476
    Added Reference https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/
    Added Reference https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 24, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-400 CWE-770
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 08, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/10 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4476 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 25, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964 Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ Not Applicable https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/ Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 21, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 21, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 21, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3890-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3890-1/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ No Types Assigned https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ No Types Assigned https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ Not Applicable
    Changed Reference Type https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1 No Types Assigned https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/ No Types Assigned https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-400
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 1.11.0 up to (excluding) 1.11.19 *cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 2.0.0 up to (excluding) 2.0.11 *cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 2.1.0 up to (excluding) 2.1.6
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 14, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3890-1/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 12, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.5
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 5
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

5.54 }} -0.96%

score

0.89883

percentile