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CVE-2021-45115

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-45115 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Django versions 2.2.x, 3.2.x, and 4.0.x. It stems from excessive processing overhead in the UserAttributeSimilarityValidator when evaluating large passwords, allowing an attacker to trigger a DoS by submitting an artificially large password during user registration. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and without user interaction, leading to high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.2, < 2.2.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.2, < 3.2.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0, < 4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0240 is in the 68th 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 (12)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 3.2.11
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 4.0.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 2.2.26
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.11 for RHEL 8Fixed in: python-django-0:3.2.13-1.el8pc
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 for Cloud ProvidersFixed in: python-django
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2Fixed in: python-django
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Fixed in: python-django
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3Fixed in: django
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: python3-django
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: python-django20
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 16.2Fixed in: python-django20

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-53qw-q765-4fwwhigh

Denial-of-service in Django

Jan 12, 2022
redhatCVE-2021-45115Moderate

django: Denial-of-service possibility in UserAttributeSimilarityValidator

Jan 4, 2022

References

docs.djangoproject.com / en/4.0/releases/security
PatchVendor Advisory
groups.google.com / forum
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B4SQG2EAF4WCI2SLRL6XRDJ3RPK3ZRDV
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20220121-0005
Third Party Advisory
djangoproject.com / weblog/2022/jan/04/security-releases
PatchVendor Advisory