SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-2hrw-hx67-34x6)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 408946

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- An issue was discovered in the Multipart Request Parser in Django 3.2 before 3.2.18, 4.0 before 4.0.10,
and 4.1 before 4.1.7. Passing certain inputs (e.g., an excessive number of parts) to multipart forms could
result in too many open files or memory exhaustion, and provided a potential vector for a denial-of-
service attack. (CVE-2023-24580)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2hrw-hx67-34x6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 408946

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24580

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24580

cwe: CWE-400