CVE-2024-41991: Django vulnerable to denial-of-service attack
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
- docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-r836-hh6v-rg5g
- github.com/django/django
- github.com/django/django/commit/523da8771bce321023f490f70d71a9e973ddc927
- github.com/django/django/commit/efea1ef7e2190e3f77ca0651b5458297bc0f6a9f
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2024-69.yaml
- groups.google.com/forum/
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41991
- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases
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