CVE-2024-27351 (GCVE-0-2024-27351)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:30
VLAI
Summary
In Django 3.2 before 3.2.25, 4.2 before 4.2.11, and 5.0 before 5.0.3, the django.utils.text.Truncator.words() method (with html=True) and the truncatewords_html template filter are subject to a potential regular expression denial-of-service attack via a crafted string. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14232 and CVE-2023-43665.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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