CVE-2024-53907

Summary

CVE-2024-53907 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting older versions of Django, including 5.1 before 5.1.4, 5.0 before 5.0.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.17. Maliciously crafted HTML sequences containing incomplete entities can cause the strip_tags() method and striptags template filter to consume excessive system resources, potentially leading to a denial-of-service condition. Users are urged to upgrade their Django installations to mitigate this risk.

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