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Debian: CVE-2024-27351: python-django -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 15, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.25, 4.2 before 4.2.11, and 5.0 before 5.0.3, the django.utils.text.Truncator.words() method (with html=True) and the truncatewords_html template filter are subject to a potential regular expression denial-of-service attack via a crafted string. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14232 and CVE-2023-43665.

Solution

debian-upgrade-python-django
Title
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