GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4LowCVSS 5.3

Django Denial-of-service possibility in truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters

Published
January 4, 2019
Last Modified
November 18, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/django:>= 2.0, < 2.0.3
  • pip/django:>= 1.11, < 1.11.11
  • pip/django:>= 1.8, < 1.8.19

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