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.
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"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-20",
"CWE-400"
],
"nvd_published_at": "2012-07-31T17:55:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-08-29T22:31:03Z"
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