CVE-2012-3443 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-3443

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before...

Vulnerability Description

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

djangoproject

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Affected Software

django
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.95, 0.96, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.2, 1.2-alpha1, 1.2.2, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.3, 1.4

Timeline

Official Publish: July 31st, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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