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Django denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()

GHSA-8498-2h75-472j · BIT-django-2024-53907 · CVE-2024-53907 · PYSEC-2024-156

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Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.

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