ghsa-8498-2h75-472j
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-12-06 12:30
Modified
2025-01-14 15:59
Summary
Django denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()
Details

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "Django",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "5.1.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "5.1.4",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "Django",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "4.2.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "4.2.17",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "Django",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "5.0.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "5.0.10",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "django",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "5.1",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "5.1.4",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "django",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "5.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "5.0.10",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "django",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "4.2",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "4.2.17",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2024-53907",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-770",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2024-12-06T18:24:43Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2024-12-06T12:15:17Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.",
   id: "GHSA-8498-2h75-472j",
   modified: "2025-01-14T15:59:58Z",
   published: "2024-12-06T12:30:47Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53907",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/django/django",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2024-156.yaml",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00028.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/dec/04/security-releases",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/04/3",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
      {
         score: "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U",
         type: "CVSS_V4",
      },
   ],
   summary: "Django denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()",
}


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