Resource Exhaustion Affecting python-django package, versions <2:2.2.4-1
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- published5 Aug 2026
- disclosed2 Aug 2019
Introduced: 2 Aug 2019
CVE-2019-14233 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Echo:latest python-django to version 2:2.2.4-1 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 Echo.
See How to fix? for Echo:latest 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.
References
- https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2019-14233
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/