CVE-2015-0222

HIGH7.5EPSS 4.3%

Django database denial-of-service with ModelMultipleChoiceField

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

ModelMultipleChoiceField in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.10 and 1.7.x before 1.7.3, when show_hidden_initial is set to True, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by submitting duplicate values, which triggers a large number of SQL queries.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/python-djangofrom 0, < 1.7.1-1.1
PyPI/django>= 1.6, < 1.6.10
PyPI/djangofrom 0, < 1.4.18, >= 1.5, < 1.6.10, >= 1.7, < 1.7.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (20)

ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/62285
ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/62309
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0222
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0222
ADVISORYhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/13/security/
PATCHhttps://github.com/django/django
WEBhttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0026.html
WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html
WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html
WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148696.html
WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/bcfb47780ce7caecb409a9e9c1c314266e41d392
WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/d7a06ee7e571b6dad07c0f5b519b1db02e2a476c
WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-7.yaml
WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20161201073154/http://secunia.com/advisories/62285
WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20161201073337/http://secunia.com/advisories/62309
WEBhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/13/security
WEBhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2469-1
WEBhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109