CVE-2025-32873

medium

Description

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().

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases/

https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/07/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-08

Updated: 2025-05-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00039