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PYSEC-2024-156

Quick fix

PYSEC-2024-156 — django: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'django>=4.2.17'

Details

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.

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Affected packages

PyPI/django

Introduced in: 5.1Fixed in: 5.1.4

Fixpip install --upgrade 'django>=4.2.17'

References

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce[WEB]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/04/3[WEB]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00028.html[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8498-2h75-472j[ADVISORY]