CVE-2015-0221

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.044 · 91 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.37% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

23 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The django.views.static.serve view in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 reads files an entire line at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long line in a file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.3–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimaryCWE-400US

affected products (23)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 10.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 12.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django≤ 1.4.17nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI django< 1.4.18osvUSpkg:pypi/django

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-jhjg-w2cp-5j44Django DoS in django.views.static.serve2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
The `django.views.static.serve` view in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 reads files an entire line at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long line in a file.
PYSEC-2015-62015-01-16vendor · osvUS
The django.views.static.serve view in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 reads files an entire line at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long line in a file.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2015-01-16modified 2026-06-17

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references (31)

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