PyPI: django
CVE-2019-14233
Safety vulnerability ID: SFTY-20190802-88780
Safety legacy ID: pyup.io-39593
Django 1.11.23, 2.1.11, and 2.2.4 include a fix for CVE-2019-14233: Due to the behavior of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.
Overview
Django Denial-of-service in strip_tags()
Advisory
Django 1.11.23, 2.1.11, and 2.2.4 include a fix for CVE-2019-14233: Due to the behavior of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.
Affected Package
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How to Fix
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Vulnerable Functions
Functions linked to known vulnerabilities.
References
- https://getsafety.com/vulnerabilities/SFTY-20190802-88780/CVE-2019-14233
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14233
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5jv-4p7w-64jg
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2019-12.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases
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