Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-qg2p-9jwr-mmqf

Django vulnerable to Denial of Service

Published Jul 10, 2024Updated Sep 10, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-django-2024-38875CVE-2024-38875PYSEC-2024-56

Severity

CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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
`4.2` to before 4.2.14	`4.2.14`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (14) `4.2` `4.2.1` `4.2.10` `4.2.11` `4.2.12` `4.2.13` `4.2.2` `4.2.3` `4.2.4` `4.2.5` `4.2.6` `4.2.7` `4.2.8` `4.2.9`
`5.0` to before 5.0.7	`5.0.7`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (7) `5.0` `5.0.1` `5.0.2` `5.0.3` `5.0.4` `5.0.5` `5.0.6`

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

References

Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38875 ↗
Webgithub.com/django/django/commit/7285644640f085f41d60ab0c8ae4e9153f0485db ↗
Webgithub.com/django/django/commit/79f368764295df109a37192f6182fb6f361d85b5 ↗
Webdocs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security ↗
Packagegithub.com/django/django ↗
Webgithub.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2024-56.yaml ↗
Webgroups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce ↗
Websecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240808-0005 ↗
Webwww.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases ↗