PT-2019-5101

CVE-2019-14233

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Published

2019-08-01

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Updated

2026-10-31

Description by

CVSS 4.0
8.7
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions 1.11.x through 1.11.22 Django versions 2.1.x through 2.1.10 Django versions 2.2.x through 2.2.3
Description The issue is related to the HTMLParser function in django.utils.html.strip tags, which can be slow to evaluate large input sequences containing incomplete HTML entities. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
Recommendations For Django versions 1.11.x through 1.11.22, update to version 1.11.23 or later. For Django versions 2.1.x through 2.1.10, update to version 2.1.11 or later. For Django versions 2.2.x through 2.2.3, update to version 2.2.4 or later.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
GHSA-H5JV-4P7W-64JG
ALT-PU-2019-2364
ALT-PU-2019-2365
ALT-PU-2019-2367
CLEANSTART-2025-WX39780
DLA-1872-1
DSA-4498-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1839-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1839-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1872-1
PYSEC-2019-12
RHSA-2020:1324
RHSA-2020:4390
SUSE-SU-2019:2180-1
SUSE-SU-2019:2257-1
SUSE-SU-2019:2335-1
USN-4084-1
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