CVE-2019-14233

Description

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 of nested incomplete HTML entities.

How to fix CVE-2019-14233

To remediate CVE-2019-14233, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.11.23-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.11.23-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 2:2.2.4-1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.11.23 or later
• —upgrade to 2.1.11 or later

Is CVE-2019-14233 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 6.8%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 1.11.23-r0
• from 0, < 1.11.23-r0
• from 0, < 2:2.2.4-1
• >= 1.11a1, < 1.11.23
• >= 2.1, < 2.1.11, >= 2.2, < 2.2.4, >= 1.11, < 1.11.23

CVSS scores

References (20)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-h5jv-4p7w-64jg
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14233
• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-14233
• ADVISORYsecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
• ADVISORY