CVE-2015-2316
medium
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
5.0
Description
The utils.html.strip_tags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Fedora Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.2 | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 14.10 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
| 10.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.7.7-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.7.7-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.7.7-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.7.7-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.7.7-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| djangoproject | django | 1.6 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.1 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.2 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.3 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.4 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.5 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.6 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.7 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.8 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.9 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.6.10 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.7 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.7.1 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.7.2 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.7.3 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.7.4 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.7.5 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.7.6 | |
| djangoproject | django | 1.8.0 | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73322
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2539-1
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2316
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/5447709a571cd5d95971f1d5d21d4a7edcf85bbd
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/b6b3cb9899214a23ebb0f4ebf0e0b300b0ee524f
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/e63363f8e075fa8d66326ad6a1cc3391cc95cd97
- https://github.com/django/django
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-18.yaml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200229033201/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73322
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2316
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.