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Critical USN-4084-1 4 CVEs

python-django vulnerabilities

Published Aug 1, 2019 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled the Truncator function. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to consume
resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2019-14232)

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled the strip_tags function.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to consume
resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2019-14233)

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain lookups in the
PostgreSQL support. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform SQL injection attacks. (CVE-2019-14234)

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain invalid UTF-8
octet sequences. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Django to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2019-14235)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS python-django 1.8.7-1ubuntu5.10
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS python-django 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.5

Vulnerabilities 4

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2019-14234 Public exploit EPSS 48%

    SQL Injection in Django

    An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. Due to an error in shallow key transformation, key and index lookups for django.contrib.postgres.fields.JSONField, and key lookups for django.contrib.postgre…

  • High 7.5

    Django Denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator

    An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a…

  • High 7.5

    Django Denial-of-service in strip_tags()

    An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. Due to the behaviour of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences…

  • High 7.5

    Uncontrolled Recursion in Django

    An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. If passed certain inputs, django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri could lead to significant memory usage due to a recursion when repercent-encoding invalid UTF-8 oc…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14232
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14233
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14234
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14235