Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability in Django's uri_to_iri Function

CVE-2019-14235 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. If passed certain inputs, django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri could lead to significant memory usage due to a recursion when repercent-encoding invalid UTF-8 octet sequences.

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