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Django has a denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags()
Django has a denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags()
Affected packages
- django— 4.2 → 4.2.21
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
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- EPSS percentile
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EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32873
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/9f3419b519799d69f2aba70b9d25abe2e70d03e0
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- https://github.com/django/django
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2025-37.yaml
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/07/1
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8j24-cjrq-gr2m
Recommended response stack
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