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GHSA-qg2p-9jwr-mmqf: Django vulnerable to Denial of Service
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.
Django vulnerable to Denial of Service
High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 10, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 10, 2024
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