CVE-2018-7537

Name
CVE-2018-7537
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. 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 catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Release Notes https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/mar/06/security-releases/
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103357
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ubuntu_linux == None == 17.10
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ubuntu_linux == None == 14.04
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ubuntu_linux == None == 16.04

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status