| Name | CVE-2024-41991 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, and the AdminURLFieldWidget widget, are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | ELA-1164-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1078074 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| python-django (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.7.11-1+deb8u17 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u17 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u23 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 1:1.11.29-1+deb10u12 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:1.11.29-1+deb10u11 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:2.2.28-1~deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 3:3.2.19-1+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 3:4.2.16-1 | fixed |
| sid | 3:4.2.17-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - python-django <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - python-django <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/
https://github.com/django/django/commit/efea1ef7e2190e3f77ca0651b5458297bc0f6a9f/ (4.2.15)
[stretch] - python-django <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[jessie] - python-django <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)