An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. Due to the behaviour of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | alpine-linux-upgrade-py-djangoalpine-linux-upgrade-py3-django | Nov 8, 2019 | Aug 2, 2019 | |
| Arch Linux | arch-linux-upgrade-latest | Jul 11, 2025 | Aug 2, 2019 | |
| Debian | debian-upgrade-python-django | Aug 8, 2019 | Aug 2, 2019 | |
| Freebsd | freebsd-upgrade-package-py27-django111freebsd-upgrade-package-py35-django111freebsd-upgrade-package-py36-django111freebsd-upgrade-package-py37-django111freebsd-upgrade-package-py27-django21freebsd-upgrade-package-py35-django21freebsd-upgrade-package-py36-django21freebsd-upgrade-package-py37-django21freebsd-upgrade-package-py27-django22freebsd-upgrade-package-py35-django22freebsd-upgrade-package-py36-django22freebsd-upgrade-package-py37-django22 | Aug 4, 2019 | Aug 3, 2019 | |
| Gentoo Linux | gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-django | May 1, 2020 | Aug 2, 2019 | |
| Oracle Solaris | oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-django-1-11-23-11-4-14-0-1-3-0oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-django-27-1-11-23-11-4-14-0-1-3-0oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-django-34-1-11-23-11-4-14-0-1-3-0oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-django-35-1-11-23-11-4-14-0-1-3-0oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-django-37-1-11-23-11-4-14-0-1-3-0 | Oct 16, 2019 | Aug 2, 2019 | |
| Suse | — | suse-upgrade-python3-django | Aug 9, 2019 | Aug 1, 2019 |
| Ubuntu | ubuntu-upgrade-python-djangoubuntu-upgrade-python3-django | Aug 2, 2019 | Aug 1, 2019 |
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