CVE-2024-27351
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Mar 15, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Feb 25, 2024
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/releases/security/
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/mar/04/security-releases/
- FEDORA-2024-5c7fb64c74vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2024-2ec03ca8cbvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2024-84fbbbb914vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20240304 Django: CVE-2024-27351: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words()mailing-list
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/3394fc6132436eca89e997083bae9985fb7e761e
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/3c9a2771cc80821e041b16eb36c1c37af5349d4a
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/072963e4c4d0b3a7a8c5412bc0c7d27d1a9c3521
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQJOMNRMVPCN5WMIZ7YSX5LQ7IR2NY4D/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SN2PLJGYSAAG5KUVIUFJYKD3BLQ4OSN6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D2JIRXEDP4ZET5KFMAPPYSK663Q52NEX/
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