CVE-2018-7537 | BDVDB-2026-97648 Detail
Description#
An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103357
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.