CVE-2024-53907

Publication date 4 December 2024

Last updated 19 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-django 25.10 questing
Fixed 3:4.2.17-2
25.04 plucky
Fixed 3:4.2.17-2
24.10 oracular
Fixed 3:4.2.15-1ubuntu1.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3:4.2.11-1ubuntu1.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:3.2.12-2ubuntu1.15
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:2.2.12-1ubuntu0.26
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.21+esm8
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.8.7-1ubuntu5.15+esm8
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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