CVE-2024-41990

Summary

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The urlize() and urlizetrunc() template filters are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/Patch
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/Advisory
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240905-0007/