CVE-2012-3443: Djangoproject Django

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: up to and including 1.3; version 0.95 only; version 0.96 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; …

Published 2012-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.