CVE-2013-1443

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The authentication framework (django.contrib.auth) in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.8, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password which is then hashed.

Affected products

Django: 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6 (+10)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00035.html
http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Set-a-reasonable-upper-bound-on-password-length-td5032218.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00035.html
http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Set-a-reasonable-upper-bound-on-password-length-td5032218.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/

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