GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4 Django Denial-of-service possibility in truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters

LOW Published 2019-01-04 Modified 2024-11-18 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2018-7537
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
Django
Severity
Low
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-185
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• PyPI Django: >= 2.0, < 2.0.3 → fixed in 2.0.3 • PyPI Django: >= 1.11, < 1.11.11 → fixed in 1.11.11 • PyPI Django: >= 1.8, < 1.8.19 → fixed in 1.8.19

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2018-7537 An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression weakness

References