GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-8j24-cjrq-gr2m Django has a denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags()

MEDIUM Published 2025-05-08 Modified 2025-05-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-32873
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
Django
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2025-05-08

Affected packages

• PyPI Django: >= 4.2, < 4.2.21 → fixed in 4.2.21 • PyPI Django: >= 5.1, < 5.1.9 → fixed in 5.1.9 • PyPI Django: >= 5.2, < 5.2.1 → fixed in 5.2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-32873 An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References