Detections
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CVE-2024-27351
medium
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.
References
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/mar/04/security-releases/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
https://github.com/django/django/commit/3c9a2771cc80821e041b16eb36c1c37af5349d4a
https://github.com/django/django/commit/3394fc6132436eca89e997083bae9985fb7e761e
https://github.com/django/django/commit/072963e4c4d0b3a7a8c5412bc0c7d27d1a9c3521