CVE-2024-41990 (GCVE-0-2024-41990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:13
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The urlize() and urlizetrunc() template filters are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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Assigner
References
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