Django 4.x < 4.2.21, 5.0.x < 5.1.9, 5.2.x < 5.2.1 DoS Vulnerability - Windows
🗓️ 08 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 94 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: A denial-of-service attack, heap use after free, network server exploit, and other vulnerabilities might affect IBM Storage Defender - Resiliency Service | 8 Jul 202517:32 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component is vulnerable to Django-4.2.20-py3-none-any.whl CVE-2025-32873 | 9 Oct 202510:22 | – | ibm | |
| CVE-2025-32873 | 8 May 202500:00 | – | alpinelinux | |
| [ASA-202505-10] python-django: denial of service | 19 May 202500:00 | – | archlinux | |
| The vulnerability of the django.utils.html.strip_tags() function in the Django web application framework allows a attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack. | 16 Jul 202500:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2025-32873 vulnerabilities | 14 May 202519:15 | – | cgr | |
| CVE-2025-32873 | 7 May 202513:06 | – | circl | |
| Django 安全漏洞 | 8 May 202500:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2025-32873 | 8 May 202500:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2025-32873 | 8 May 202500:00 | – | cvelist |
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| Source | Link |
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| djangoproject | www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases/ |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:djangoproject:django";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.154457");
script_version("2026-06-25T06:55:31+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-06-25 06:55:31 +0000 (Thu, 25 Jun 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-05-08 05:07:05 +0000 (Thu, 08 May 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2025-05-08 04:17:18 +0000 (Thu, 08 May 2025)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2025-32873");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Django 4.x < 4.2.21, 5.0.x < 5.1.9, 5.2.x < 5.2.1 DoS Vulnerability - Windows");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_django_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("django/windows/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Django is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"django.utils.html.strip_tags() are slow to evaluate certain
inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Django version 4.x prior to 4.2.21, 5.0.x, 5.1.x prior to
5.1.9 and 5.2.x prior to 5.2.1.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.2.21, 5.1.9, 5.2.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases/");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "4.0", test_version_up: "4.2.21")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.2.21", install_path: location);
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "5.0", test_version_up: "5.1.9")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.1.9", install_path: location);
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "5.2", test_version_up: "5.2.1")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.2.1", install_path: location);
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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25 Jun 2026 00:00Current
6.6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.6
CVSS 3.15.3
EPSS0.13624
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