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CVE-2019-14233
An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x...
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. Due to the behaviour of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
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Vulnerable Versions:
1.11, 2.1, 2.2, 15.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 2nd, 2019
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.