CVE-2024-45230

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Moderate Moderate Impact What does this mean?
5.9 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

A flaw was found in Python's Django urlize() and urlizetrunc() functions. Excessive input with a specific sequence of characters may lead to denial of service.

Statement

CVE-2024-45230 is classified as a moderate severity vulnerability because, while it presents a potential denial-of-service (DoS) risk, it does not directly expose the application to data breaches or arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability arises from inefficient handling of very large inputs with specific character sequences in the urlize() and urlizetrunc() functions. However, the attack requires carefully crafted input and only leads to resource exhaustion (such as CPU or memory overload) under specific conditions, making it less likely to be exploited in typical production environments. This reduces its impact compared to vulnerabilities that allow unauthorized access or significant system compromise, hence the moderate severity rating.

Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45230

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45230

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 ansible-tower Will not fix
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8 Affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 python-django Affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-dellemc-openmanage-rhel8 Not affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-25/platform-resource-runner-rhel8 Not affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 automation-controller Fixed RHSA-2024:8534
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 automation-controller Fixed RHSA-2024:8534
Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-django Fix deferred
Red Hat Discovery 1 discovery-server-container Affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python-django20 Will not fix
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 5.9 7.5
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity High Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Red Hat CVSS v3 Score Explanation

In the case of CVE-2024-45230, an attacker would need to craft very specific and large inputs with a certain sequence of characters to trigger the potential denial-of-service condition in the urlize() and urlizetrunc() functions. The attack does not occur simply by providing arbitrary input, but rather requires input that is designed to cause the application to consume excessive resources (e.g., CPU or memory). This type of attack would likely require a deeper understanding of how the functions process text, and it would need to be precisely executed to cause the problem, which makes the attack more complex and harder to exploit.

Thus, Attack Complexity marked as high.

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