CVE-2024-38875

7.5 HIGH

Published: July 10, 2024 Modified: November 04, 2025

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce

Source: cve@mitre.org

Permissions Required

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Permissions Required

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240808-0005/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

7 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

7.5 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.3%

55th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-130

Affected Vendors

djangoproject

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