CVE-2024-41991

NameCVE-2024-41991
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesELA-1164-1
Debian Bugs1078074

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
python-django (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.7.11-1+deb8u17fixed
stretch (security)1:1.10.7-2+deb9u17fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:1.10.7-2+deb9u23fixed
buster, buster (lts)1:1.11.29-1+deb10u12fixed
buster (security)1:1.11.29-1+deb10u11vulnerable
bullseye (security), bullseye2:2.2.28-1~deb11u2vulnerable
bookworm (security), bookworm3:3.2.19-1+deb12u1vulnerable
sid, trixie3:4.2.16-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-djangosourcejessie(not affected)
python-djangosourcestretch(not affected)
python-djangosourcebuster1:1.11.29-1+deb10u12ELA-1164-1
python-djangosource(unstable)3:4.2.15-11078074

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)

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