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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-8j24-cjrq-gr2m)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 425952

Description

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

 - 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(). (CVE-2025-32873)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8j24-cjrq-gr2m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 425952

Version: Revision 1.19

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32873

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32873

cwe: CWE-770