GHSA-h8gc-pgj2-vjm3HighCVSS 5.9

Django Denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator

Published
November 3, 2023
Last Modified
November 4, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.22, 4.1 before 4.1.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.6, the django.utils.text.Truncator chars() and words() methods (when used with html=True) are subject to a potential DoS (denial of service) attack via certain inputs with very long, potentially malformed HTML text. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which are thus also vulnerable. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14232.

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/Django:>= 3.2a1, < 3.2.22
  • pip/Django:>= 4.1a1, < 4.1.12
  • pip/Django:>= 4.2a1, < 4.2.6

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