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
HighMetricsAV: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.
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