7.5

CVE-2019-14233: djangoproject django Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Modified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2019-14233GHSA-h5jv-4p7w-64jgPYSEC-2019-12
Published 02-08-2019Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-14233 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in djangoproject django. EPSS estimates a 3.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 3% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 10 · Related 6
DLA-1872-1DSA-4498-1OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1839-1OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1872-1RHSA-2020:1324RHSA-2020:4390

Timeline

  1. 02-08-2019
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability 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. Due to the behaviour of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 5 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 3.17% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Alpine2 products
  • py-django< 1.11.23-r0
  • py3-django< 1.11.23-r0
Debian1 product
  • python-django< 2:2.2.4-1
Djangoproject1 product
  • django≥ 1.11, < 1.11.23 | ≥ 2.1, < 2.1.11 | ≥ 2.2, < 2.2.4
Opensuse1 product
PyPI1 product
  • django≥ 1.11a1, < 1.11.23 | ≥ 2.1a1, < 2.1.11 | ≥ 2.2a1, < 2.2.4 | ≥ 1.11, < 1.11.23
Ubuntu1 product
  • python-djangoAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.8.7-1ubuntu5.10 | < 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.5 | < 1:1.11.22-1ubuntu1

6 vendors · 7 products

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