GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8j24-cjrq-gr2m Django has a denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags()
MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32873 advisory
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/9f3419b519799d69f2aba70b9d25abe2e70d03e0 web
- 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-2025-37.yaml web
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce web
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/07/1 web