vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-7537: Incorrect Regular Expression
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 9, 2018 | Mar 14, 2018 | Jun 18, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 9, 2018
Added
Mar 14, 2018
Modified
Jun 18, 2026
Description
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.
Solutions
alpine-linux-upgrade-py-djangoalpine-linux-upgrade-py3-django
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