CVE-2018-7537
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-09 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:31
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103357Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103357Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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