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GHSA-8498-2h75-472j

Django denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-53907

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI Django >= 5.1.0, < 5.1.4 5.1.4
PyPI Django >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.17 4.2.17
PyPI Django >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.10 5.0.10
PyPI django >= 5.1, < 5.1.4 5.1.4
PyPI django >= 5.0, < 5.0.10 5.0.10
PyPI django >= 4.2, < 4.2.17 4.2.17

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

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