SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-4rrr-2h4v-f3j9)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 437508

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.2, 5.2 before 5.2.11, and 4.2 before 4.2.28.
`django.utils.text.Truncator.chars()` and `Truncator.words()` methods (with `html=True`) and the
`truncatechars_html` and `truncatewords_html` template filters allow a remote attacker to cause a
potential denial-of-service via crafted inputs containing a large number of unmatched HTML end tags.
Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be
affected. Django would like to thank Seokchan Yoon for reporting this issue. (CVE-2026-1285)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4rrr-2h4v-f3j9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 437508

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/4/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

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-2026-1285

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

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:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-1285

cwe: CWE-407