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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-qcgg-j2x8-h9g8)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418057

Description

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

 - 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.) (CVE-2024-56374)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcgg-j2x8-h9g8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418057

Version: Revision 1.17

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: 23.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2024-56374

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56374

cwe: CWE-770