Description
The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.
Published: 2012-07-31
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2529-1 python-django security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-0004 The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-59w8-4wm2-4xw8 Django Image Field Vulnerable to Image Decompression Bombs
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1560-1 Django vulnerabilities
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Djangoproject Django
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:05:12.549Z

Reserved: 2012-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-3443

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-07-31T17:55:04.577

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-3443

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