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SCA: security update for django (GHSA-vm8q-m57g-pff3)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419410

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2024-27351)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vm8q-m57g-pff3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419410

Version: Revision 1.14

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: 23.66

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-2024-27351

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27351