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CVE-2024-38875

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-130

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

Affected products

• Django: from 4.2 before 4.2.14; from 5.0 before 5.0.7 — fixed in 4.2.14, 5.0.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Django 4.2.14, 5.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240808-0005/
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/

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