CVE-2025-32873 (GCVE-0-2025-32873)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-08 00:00
Modified
2025-05-08 14:42
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
djangoproject Django Version: 4.2   < 4.2.21
Version: 5.1   < 5.1.9
Version: 5.2   < 5.2.1
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