CVE-2014-0481

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-08-20
Bugzilla:
1129952: CVE-2014-0481 Django: file upload denial of service

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The default configuration for the file upload handling system in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3 uses a sequential file name generation process when a file with a conflicting name is uploaded, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by unloading a multiple files with the same name.

Find out more about CVE-2014-0481 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 Django Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) python-django Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 Django14 Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges David Wilson as the original reporter.

External References

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