GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4 Django Denial-of-service possibility in truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters
LOW
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- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7537 advisory
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/94c5da1d17a6b0d378866c66b605102c19f7988c web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/a91436360b79a6ff995c3e5018bcc666dfaf1539 web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/d17974a287a6ea2e361daff88fcc004cbd6835fa web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4 advisory
- https://github.com/django/django package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2018-6.yaml web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html web
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1 web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161 web
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases web