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Debian: CVE-2024-53907: python-django -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 6, 2024
Added
Jan 3, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.

Solution

debian-upgrade-python-django
Title
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