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UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14232
An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and wor...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
python-django
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
python-django
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.7-1ubuntu5.10"}]}]
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
python-django
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.5"}]}]
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
python-django
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.11.22-1ubuntu1"}]}]
References
- advisory ubuntu.com
- report ubuntu.com
- report cve.org