CVE-2024-27351

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 2.6%

Regular expression denial-of-service in Django

Published: 3/15/2024Modified: 2/11/2026
Also known as:GHSA-vm8q-m57g-pff3BIT-django-2024-27351PYSEC-2024-47

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.

Affected packages (4)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (26)