Vulnerability advisory

PYSEC-2024-102

Published Oct 8, 2024Updated Jun 10, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-django-2024-45230CVE-2024-45230GHSA-5hgc-2vfp-mqvc

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

django PyPI

Affected	Fixed in
`5.1` to before 5.1.1	`5.1.1`Advisories →
`5.0` to before 5.0.9	`5.0.9`Advisories →
`4.2` to before 4.2.16	`4.2.16`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (26) `4.2` `4.2.1` `4.2.10` `4.2.11` `4.2.12` `4.2.13` `4.2.14` `4.2.15` `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` `5.0.1` `5.0.2` `5.0.3` `5.0.4` `5.0.5` `5.0.6` `5.0.7` `5.0.8` `5.1`

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.1, 5.0 before 5.0.9, and 4.2 before 4.2.16. The urlize() and urlizetrunc() template filters are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.

References

Webdocs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ ↗
Webgroups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce ↗
ARTICLEwww.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/sep/03/security-releases/ ↗
Advisorygithub.com/advisories/GHSA-5hgc-2vfp-mqvc ↗