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Medium USN-6414-1 1 CVE

python-django vulnerability

Published Oct 4, 2023 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Wenchao Li discovered that the Django Truncator function incorrectly
handled very long HTML input. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Django to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS python-django 2:2.2.12-1ubuntu0.20
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS python-django 2:3.2.12-2ubuntu1.9

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2023-43665

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

    In Django 3.2 before 3.2.22, 4.1 before 4.1.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.6, the django.utils.text.Truncator chars() and words() methods (when used with html=True) are subject to a potential DoS (denial of service) attack via certain inputs with very long, potential…

    python-django django python-django py3-django Debian Ubuntu Alpine PyPI

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-43665