CVE-2024-56374

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.5, 5.0 before 5.0.11, and 4.2 before 4.2.18. Lack of upper-bound limit enforcement in strings passed when performing IPv6 validation could lead to a potential denial-of-service attack. The undocumented and private functions clean_ipv6_address and is_valid_ipv6_address are vulnerable, as is the django.forms.GenericIPAddressField form field. (The django.db.models.GenericIPAddressField model field is not affected.)

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56374
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/4806731e58f3e8700a3c802e77899d54ac6021fe
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/ad866a1ca3e7d60da888d25d27e46a8adb2ed36e
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/ca2be7724e1244a4cb723de40a070f873c6e94bf
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/e8d4a2005955dcf962193600b53bf461b190b455
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
• https://github.com/django/django
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2025-1.yaml
• https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00024.html
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jan/14/security-releases
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/2
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jan/14/security-releases/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56374.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-56374