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CVE-2015-5145

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5145 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Django 1.8.x before version 1.8.3, specifically within the validators.URLValidator component. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw to cause high CPU consumption through unspecified vectors. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity with low attack complexity and a complete impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0297 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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 (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.8.3

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-cqf7-ff9h-7967high

Django ReDoS in validators.URLValidator

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-5145Moderate

Django: DoS via incorrect URL validation

Jul 8, 2015

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201510-06
djangoproject.com / weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/75691
securitytracker.com / id/1032820