Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:20969Regular Expression Denial Of Service (ReDoS)
0.029 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.8%
Django is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS). The attack is due to lack of validation of inputs to a regular expression in django.utils.text.Truncator’s chars() and words() methods, eventually causing an application crash if the input html=True is provided.
References
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
django.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/security.html
docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/
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