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Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-django.src  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PYTHONDJANGOSRC-12615179
  • published11 Sept 2025
  • disclosed6 Mar 2018
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Introduced: 6 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7537  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-django.src package and not the python-django.src package as distributed by RHEL.

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.