CVE-2024-39317
Published: 11 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-39317 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Torchbox Wagtail. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application Exhaustion Flood (T1499.003); ranked in the top 43.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-0186
Vulnerability details
Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. A bug in Wagtail's `parse_query_string` would result in it taking a long time to process suitably crafted inputs. When used to parse sufficiently long strings of characters without a…
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space, `parse_query_string` would take an unexpectedly large amount of time to process, resulting in a denial of service. In an initial Wagtail installation, the vulnerability can be exploited by any Wagtail admin user. It cannot be exploited by end users. If your Wagtail site has a custom search implementation which uses `parse_query_string`, it may be exploitable by other users (e.g. unauthenticated users). Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 5.2.6, 6.0.6 and 6.1.3.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
ReDoS vulnerability in Wagtail's parse_query_string enables denial of service via crafted long search queries causing excessive CPU usage, facilitating application exhaustion flood and exploitation for endpoint DoS.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.