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Incorrect Regular Expression

CVE-2018-7536

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

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. The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in two regular expressions (only one regular expression for Django 1.8.x). The urlize() function is used to implement the urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, which were thus vulnerable. The older branches are unsupported and might be vulnerable as well.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression

The software specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published