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SCA: security update for django (GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422867

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. If
 django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were
 extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular
 expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and
 truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable. (CVE-2018-7537)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422867

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 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-2018-7537

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

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: 1/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7537

BID: 103357

cwe: CWE-185