Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-39329

Medium

Published: 10 July 2024

Published
10 July 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0016 37.4th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-39329 is a medium-severity Observable Timing Discrepancy (CWE-208) vulnerability in Djangoproject Django. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 37.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.7 and 4.2 before 4.2.14. The django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend.authenticate() method allows remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack involving login requests for users with an unusable password.

CWE(s)
CWE-208

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

djangoproject
django
4.2 — 4.2.14 · 5.0 — 5.0.7

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-30 Concealment and Misdirection
addresses: CWE-208

Timing randomization or delays can mask true operation timing and mislead timing-based attacks.

SC-31 Covert Channel Analysis
addresses: CWE-208

Observable timing discrepancies are a primary mechanism for constructing covert timing channels; analysis identifies and bounds them, limiting exploitation.

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