An issue was discovered in Django 3.2 before 3.2.23, 4.1 before 4.1.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.7. The NFKC normalization is slow on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.forms.UsernameField is subject to a potential DoS (denial of service) attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-11-02T21:26:14Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2023-11-02T06:15:08Z",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-770"
],
"severity": "HIGH"
}