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CVE-2015-0222

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0222 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Django versions 1.6.x before 1.6.10 and 1.7.x before 1.7.3, specifically affecting the ModelMultipleChoiceField when show_hidden_initial is enabled. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by submitting duplicate values, leading to an excessive number of SQL queries and a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:lts:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:lts:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.4.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0269 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.6.10
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.7.3
ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-6g95-x6cj-mg4vhigh

Django database denial-of-service with ModelMultipleChoiceField

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-0222Moderate

Django: database denial of service with ModelMultipleChoiceField

Jan 13, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0026.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148696.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
secunia.com / advisories/62285
secunia.com / advisories/62309
djangoproject.com / weblog/2015/jan/13/security
PatchVendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-2469-1
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories