Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-h8gc-pgj2-vjm3

Django Denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator

Published Nov 3, 2023Updated Nov 4, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-django-2023-43665CVE-2023-43665PYSEC-2023-226

Severity

CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected versions

django PyPI

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Affected	Fixed in
`3.2a1` to before 3.2.22	`3.2.22`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (25) `3.2` `3.2.1` `3.2.10` `3.2.11` `3.2.12` `3.2.13` `3.2.14` `3.2.15` `3.2.16` `3.2.17` `3.2.18` `3.2.19` `3.2.2` `3.2.20` `3.2.21` `3.2.3` `3.2.4` `3.2.5` `3.2.6` `3.2.7` `3.2.8` `3.2.9` `3.2a1` `3.2b1` `3.2rc1`
`4.1a1` to before 4.1.12	`4.1.12`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (15) `4.1` `4.1.1` `4.1.10` `4.1.11` `4.1.2` `4.1.3` `4.1.4` `4.1.5` `4.1.6` `4.1.7` `4.1.8` `4.1.9` `4.1a1` `4.1b1` `4.1rc1`
`4.2a1` to before 4.2.6	`4.2.6`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (9) `4.2` `4.2.1` `4.2.2` `4.2.3` `4.2.4` `4.2.5` `4.2a1` `4.2b1` `4.2rc1`

Description

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.22, 4.1 before 4.1.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.6, the django.utils.text.Truncator chars() and words() methods (when used with html=True) are subject to a potential DoS (denial of service) attack via certain inputs with very long, potentially malformed HTML text. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which are thus also vulnerable. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14232.

GHSA-h8gc-pgj2-vjm3

Affected versions

django PyPI

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