CVE-2015-2316

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The utils.html.strip_tags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Django: 1.6, 1.6-beta1, 1.6-beta2, 1.6-beta3, 1.6-beta4, 1.6.1 (+23)
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22
Opensuse: 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73322
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2539-1
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73322
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2539-1
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/

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