GHSA-vm8q-m57g-pff3MediumCVSS 5.3

Regular expression denial-of-service in Django

Published
March 15, 2024
Last Modified
November 4, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-27351 →

📋 Description

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.25, 4.2 before 4.2.11, and 5.0 before 5.0.3, the django.utils.text.Truncator.words() method (with html=True) and the truncatewords_html template filter are subject to a potential regular expression denial-of-service attack via a crafted string. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14232 and CVE-2023-43665.

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/django:>= 3.2, < 3.2.25
  • pip/django:>= 4.2, < 4.2.11
  • pip/django:>= 5.0, < 5.0.3

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