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CVE-2019-6975

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-6975 is an uncontrolled memory consumption vulnerability affecting the Django web framework versions 1.11.x, 2.0.x, and 2.1.x prior to their respective security updates. Rated as High severity with a CVSS score of 7.5, this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by supplying malicious values to the django.utils.numberformat.format() function. Despite a FAUCET risk score of 86, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available in repositories like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and the issue is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.11.0, < 1.11.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.1.0, < 2.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0502 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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 (15)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 2.0.11
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 2.1.6
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.11.19
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky)Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein)Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational ToolsFixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational ToolsFixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 2Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3Fixed in: python-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: python-django

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-wh4h-v3f2-r2pphigh

Uncontrolled Memory Consumption in Django

Feb 12, 2019
redhatCVE-2019-6975Moderate

python-django: memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.format()

Feb 11, 2019

References

docs.djangoproject.com / en/dev/releases/security
PatchVendor Advisory
groups.google.com / forum
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Jul/10
usn.ubuntu.com / 3890-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4476
djangoproject.com / weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases
PatchVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/106964
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry