Vulnerability advisory

PYSEC-2024-69

Published Aug 7, 2024Updated Jun 10, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-django-2024-41991CVE-2024-41991GHSA-r836-hh6v-rg5g

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

django PyPI

Affected	Fixed in
`5.0` to before 5.0.8	`5.0.8`Advisories →
`4.2` to before 4.2.15	`4.2.15`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (23) `4.2` `4.2.1` `4.2.10` `4.2.11` `4.2.12` `4.2.13` `4.2.14` `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`

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, and the AdminURLFieldWidget widget, are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.

References

Webdocs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ ↗
Webgroups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce ↗
ARTICLEwww.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/ ↗
Advisorygithub.com/advisories/GHSA-r836-hh6v-rg5g ↗