Resource Exhaustion Affecting py3-django package, versions <1.11.23-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.24% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE314-PY3DJANGO-1535559
  • published2 Aug 2021
  • disclosed2 Aug 2019

Introduced: 2 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14233  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.14 py3-django to version 1.11.23-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream py3-django package and not the py3-django package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. Due to the behaviour of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.