GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-vm8q-m57g-pff3 Regular expression denial-of-service in Django

MEDIUM Published 2024-03-15 Modified 2025-11-04 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-27351
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
Django
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333
Reviewed
2024-03-18

Affected packages

• PyPI Django: >= 3.2, < 3.2.25 → fixed in 3.2.25 • PyPI Django: >= 4.2, < 4.2.11 → fixed in 4.2.11 • PyPI Django: >= 5.0, < 5.0.3 → fixed in 5.0.3

Description

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.25, 4.2 before 4.2.11, and 5.0 before 5.0.3, the django.utils.text.Truncator.words() method (with html=True) and the truncatewords_html template filter are subject to a potential regular expression denial-of-service attack via a crafted string. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14232 and CVE-2023-43665.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-27351 In Django 3.2 before 3.2.25, 4.2 before 4.2.11, and 5.0 before 5.0.3, the django.utils.text.Truncator.words() method (with html=True) and… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References