CVE-2018-7537
Published: 6 March 2018
An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. 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.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 5.3
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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python-django Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Released
(1.8.19,1.11.11)
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precise |
Does not exist
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trusty |
Released
(1.6.11-0ubuntu1.2)
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xenial |
Released
(1.8.7-1ubuntu5.6)
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artful |
Released
(1:1.11.4-1ubuntu1.2)
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