CVE-2024-41989 Django memory consumption vulnerability
Attackers can cause excessive memory consumption and denial of service by providing large scientific notation exponents to the floatformat template filter.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-41989?
CVE-2024-41989 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Djangoproject Django, published on 7 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-41989?
6 open source packages ship an affected version, including django and Django. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
django Bitnami | From 4.2.0 | 4.2.15, 5.0.8 |
django PyPI | From 4.2 | 4.2.15 |
django PyPI | From 5.0 | 5.0.8, 4.2.15 |
django PyPI | From 5.0 | 5.0.8 |
Django PyPI | From 4.2 | 4.2.15 |
Django PyPI | From 5.0 | 5.0.8 |
Products include Djangoproject Django.
How do I fix CVE-2024-41989?
Upgrade django to a fixed version for your release line: 4.2.15 or 5.0.8.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-41989 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41989 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as BIT-django-2024-41989, CLSA-2025-1756858299, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41989, GHSA-jh75-99hh-qvx9, PYSEC-2024-67, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41989.