An issue was discovered in Django 2.2 before 2.2.26, 3.2 before 3.2.11, and 4.0 before 4.0.1. UserAttributeSimilarityValidator
incurred significant overhead in evaluating a submitted password that was artificially large in relation to the comparison values. In a situation where access to user registration was unrestricted, this provided a potential vector for a denial-of-service attack.
docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/security
github.com/django/django
github.com/django/django/commit/2135637fdd5ce994de110affef9e67dffdf77277
github.com/django/django/commit/a8b32fe13bcaed1c0b772fdc53de84abc224fb20
github.com/django/django/commit/df79ef03ac867c93caaa6be56bc69e66abfeef8f
groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-announce
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/B4SQG2EAF4WCI2SLRL6XRDJ3RPK3ZRDV
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45115
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0005
www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/jan/04/security-releases