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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-r28v-mw67-m5p9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422869

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. The
 django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic
 backtracking vulnerabilities in two regular expressions (only one regular expression for Django 1.8.x).
 The urlize() function is used to implement the urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, which were thus
 vulnerable. (CVE-2018-7536)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r28v-mw67-m5p9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422869

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 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-2018-7536

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:L/VA:N/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-2018-7536

BID: 103361

cwe: CWE-185