Resource Exhaustion Affecting python-django package, versions <1:1.11.23-1~deb10u1


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 2.36% (90th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PYTHONDJANGO-456437
  • published 1 Aug 2019
  • disclosed 2 Aug 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 python-django to version 1:1.11.23-1~deb10u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-django package and not the python-django package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 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.