CVE-2024-53907

unknown
Published 2024-12-06 · Modified 2025-03-10
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-53907

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53907.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3:3.2.25-0+deb12u1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:2.2.28-1~deb11u3
debian debianforkyfixed3:4.2.17-1
debian debiansidfixed3:4.2.17-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3:4.2.17-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIdjango>=5.1.0,<5.1.45.1.4
python PyPIdjango>=4.2.0,<4.2.174.2.17
python PyPIdjango>=5.0.0,<5.0.105.0.10
python PyPIdjango>=5.1,<5.1.45.1.4
python PyPIdjango>=5.0,<5.0.105.0.10
python PyPIdjango>=4.2,<4.2.174.2.17

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.