GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-8498-2h75-472j Django denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()

MEDIUM Published 2024-12-06 Modified 2025-01-14 Official page ↗
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