ALPINE-CVE-2019-14232

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CVE-2019-14232
Published: 02 Aug 2019, 15:15
Last modified:19 Nov 2025, 06:15

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

02 Aug 2019, 15:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
19 Nov 2025, 06:15
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. 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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•py-django

    < 1.11.23-r0 | < 1.11.23-r0 | < 1.11.23-r0 | < 1.11.23-r0

  • alpine•py3-django

    < 1.11.23-r0 | < 1.11.23-r0

References (1)