🛡️ CVE-2024-53907 — django

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 OSV

8.0

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-53907 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

CVE-2024-53907 is recorded against 1 package.

django

Timeline and source

Published on 10 March 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

docs.djangoproject.com (Web)
groups.google.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

CVE-2024-53907 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 8.0

CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

CWE CWE-770

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2025-03-10

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
django	—	—

References

WEB https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

WEB https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce

WEB https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/04/3

WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00028.html

WEB https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53907

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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