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.
References
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https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases/ | Release Notes Vendor Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103357 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161 | Third Party Advisory |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927 | Third Party Advisory |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265 | Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2018-03-09 12:29
Updated : 2019-02-28 14:37
NVD link : CVE-2018-7537
Mitre link : CVE-2018-7537
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CWE
CWE-185
Incorrect Regular Expression
Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
djangoproject
- django