CVE-2024-27351 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/releases/security/ https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/mar/04/security-releases/