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CVE-2024-41989

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The floatformat template filter is subject to significant memory consumption when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent.

Affected products

• Django: from 4.2 before 4.2.15; from 5.0 before 5.0.8 — fixed in 4.2.15, 5.0.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Django 4.2.15, 5.0.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240905-0007/

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