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Ubuntu: USN-4084-1 (CVE-2019-14232): Django vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4084-1 (CVE-2019-14232): Django vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/01/2019
Created
08/02/2019
Added
08/02/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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. 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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-django
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-django

References

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