GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8498-2h75-472j Django denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-53907
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- Django, django
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2024-12-06
Affected packages
• PyPI Django: >= 5.1.0, < 5.1.4 → fixed in 5.1.4
• PyPI Django: >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.17 → fixed in 4.2.17
• PyPI Django: >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.10 → fixed in 5.0.10
• PyPI django: >= 5.1, < 5.1.4 → fixed in 5.1.4
• PyPI django: >= 5.0, < 5.0.10 → fixed in 5.0.10
• PyPI django: >= 4.2, < 4.2.17 → fixed in 4.2.17
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-53907 An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53907 advisory
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security web
- https://github.com/django/django package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2024-156.yaml web
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00028.html web
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/dec/04/security-releases web
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/04/3 web