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CVE-2023-23969

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-23969 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Django versions 3.2.17, 4.0.9, and 4.1.6 and earlier. It stems from excessive memory usage when caching large Accept-Language header values. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.2, < 3.2.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0, < 4.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.1, < 4.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
47.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4710 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: djangoFixed in: 4.1.6
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: djangoFixed in: 3.2.17
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: djangoFixed in: 4.0.9
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHUI 4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: python-django-0:3.2.18-1.0.1.el8ui
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8Fixed in: python-django-0:3.2.18-1.el8pc
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Fixed in: python-django
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: satellite-capsule:el8/python-django
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: satellite:el8/python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3 for Cloud ProvidersFixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: python-django20
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: python-django20
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: python-django

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-q2jf-h9jm-m7p4high

Django contains Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via cached header

Feb 1, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-23969Moderate

python-django: Potential denial-of-service via Accept-Language headers

Feb 1, 2023

References

docs.djangoproject.com / en/4.1/releases/security
PatchVendor Advisory
groups.google.com / forum
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWY6DQWRVBALV73BPUVBXC3QIYUM24IK
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTZVAKU5ALQWOKFTPISE257VCVIYGFQI
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230302-0007
djangoproject.com / weblog/2023/feb/01/security-releases
Release NotesVendor Advisory