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SCA: security update for Django, django (GHSA-8498-2h75-472j)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412416

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-53907)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8498-2h75-472j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412416

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53907

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: 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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53907

IAVA: 2024-A-0796-S

cwe: CWE-770