CVE-2025-32873 (GCVE-0-2025-32873)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-08 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-08 14:42
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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djangoproject Django Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.21 (custom)
Affected: 5.1 , < 5.1.9 (custom)
Affected: 5.2 , < 5.2.1 (custom)
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