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Alpine: multiple py3-django packages: security update to 4.2.21-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 426086

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://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-32873

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 426086

Version: Revision 1.18

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32873