CVE-2019-14233
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Arch Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Fixed | 2.2.4-1 |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2:2.2.4-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2:2.2.4-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2:2.2.4-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2:2.2.4-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2:2.2.4-1 |
References
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201908-2
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14233
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5jv-4p7w-64jg
- https://github.com/django/django
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2019-12.yaml
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14233.html
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14233
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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