Django up to 3.2.24/4.2.10/5.0.2 Regular Expression django.utils.text.Truncator.words redos

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A vulnerability was found in Django up to 3.2.24/4.2.10/5.0.2. It has been rated as problematic. The impacted element is the function django.utils.text.Truncator.words of the component Regular Expression Handler. The manipulation leads to redos. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-27351. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Django up to 3.2.24/4.2.10/5.0.2 (Content Management System). This issue affects the function django.utils.text.Truncator.words of the component Regular Expression Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redos vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1333. The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was disclosed 03/04/2024. It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-27351 since 02/25/2024. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1449.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211092 (Fedora 41 : python-django (2024-c5c5671edb)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 3.2.25, 4.2.11 or 5.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211092). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Django

Version

• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.2.7
• 3.2.8
• 3.2.9
• 3.2.10
• 3.2.11
• 3.2.12
• 3.2.13
• 3.2.14
• 3.2.15
• 3.2.16
• 3.2.17
• 3.2.18
• 3.2.19
• 3.2.20
• 3.2.21
• 3.2.22
• 3.2.23
• 3.2.24
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.2.8
• 4.2.9
• 4.2.10
• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2

License

• open-source

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