An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38875
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases
• django/django@7285644
• django/django@79f3687
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2024-56.yaml