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authorMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2023-10-17 11:48:32 +0200
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2023-11-01 06:10:30 +0100
commit05ba4130ee878c4f520b5d34bb11eaad794623be (patch)
tree1d11111ee476d411c8fc62bd6da6e9376d2f1d4e /docs/releases/4.2.7.txt
parent40b3975e7d3e1464a733c69171ad7d38f8814280 (diff)
Fixed CVE-2023-46695 -- Fixed potential DoS in UsernameField on Windows.
Thanks MProgrammer (https://hackerone.com/mprogrammer) for the report.
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@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ Django 4.2.7 release notes
Django 4.2.7 fixes a security issue with severity "moderate" and several bugs
in 4.2.6.
+CVE-2023-46695: Potential denial of service vulnerability in ``UsernameField`` on Windows
+=========================================================================================
+
+The :func:`NFKC normalization <python:unicodedata.normalize>` is slow on
+Windows. As a consequence, ``django.contrib.auth.forms.UsernameField`` was
+subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very
+large number of Unicode characters.
+
+In order to avoid the vulnerability, invalid values longer than
+``UsernameField.max_length`` are no longer normalized, since they cannot pass
+validation anyway.
+
Bugfixes
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