GHSA-8498-2h75-472jMediumCVSS 7.5

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

Published
December 6, 2024
Last Modified
January 14, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-53907 →

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products6

  • pip/Django:>= 5.1.0, < 5.1.4
  • pip/Django:>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.17
  • pip/Django:>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.10
  • pip/django:>= 5.1, < 5.1.4
  • pip/django:>= 5.0, < 5.0.10
  • pip/django:>= 4.2, < 4.2.17

🔗 References (8)