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CVE-2018-7537: Django Denial-of-service possibility in truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters

January 4, 2019 (updated November 18, 2024)

An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. 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.

References

  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4
  • github.com/django/django
  • github.com/django/django/commit/94c5da1d17a6b0d378866c66b605102c19f7988c
  • github.com/django/django/commit/a91436360b79a6ff995c3e5018bcc666dfaf1539
  • github.com/django/django/commit/d17974a287a6ea2e361daff88fcc004cbd6835fa
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2018-6.yaml
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7537
  • usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1
  • www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161
  • www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.8 before 1.8.19, all versions starting from 1.11 before 1.11.11, all versions starting from 2.0 before 2.0.3

Fixed versions

  • 2.0.3
  • 1.11.11
  • 1.8.19

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.11.11, 1.8.19, 2.0.3 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression

Source file

pypi/Django/CVE-2018-7537.yml

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