GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h

Denial of service via regular expression

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2024-28865

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	wiki	< 0.10.1	0.10.1

Details

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

### Impact All historical installations of django-wiki are vulnerable to maliciously crafted article content, that can cause severe use of server CPU through a regular expression loop. ### Patches ### Workarounds Close off access to create and edit articles by anonymous users. ### References _Are there any links users can visit to find out more?_

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/security/advisories/GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28865 advisory
https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/commit/8e280fd6c0bd27ce847c67b2d216c6cbf920f88c web
https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki package