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CVE-2018-7536: Django denial-of-service possibility in urlize and urlizetrunc template filters

January 4, 2019 (updated September 18, 2024)

An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in two regular expressions (only one regular expression for Django 1.8.x). The urlize() function is used to implement the urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

References

  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0051
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0082
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-r28v-mw67-m5p9
  • github.com/django/django
  • github.com/django/django/commit/1ca63a66ef3163149ad822701273e8a1844192c2
  • github.com/django/django/commit/abf89d729f210c692a50e0ad3f75fb6bec6fae16
  • github.com/django/django/commit/e157315da3ae7005fa0683ffc9751dbeca7306c8
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2018-5.yaml
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7536
  • usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1
  • web.archive.org/web/20200227131019/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103361
  • www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161
  • www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.0a1 before 2.0.3, all versions starting from 1.11a1 before 1.11.11, all versions starting from 1.8a1 before 1.8.19

Fixed versions

  • 2.0.3
  • 1.11.11
  • 1.8.19

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.11.11, 1.8.19, 2.0.3 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression

Source file

pypi/Django/CVE-2018-7536.yml

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