CVE-2025-32873
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-32873
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32873.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202505-10
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 5.1.9-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3:3.2.25-0+deb12u1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2:2.2.28-1~deb11u7 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3:4.2.21-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3:4.2.21-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3:4.2.21-1 |
References
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202505-10
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32873
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/9f3419b519799d69f2aba70b9d25abe2e70d03e0
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- https://github.com/django/django
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2025-37.yaml
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/07/1
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases/
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32873.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-32873
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.