vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-7537)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 9, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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