Security advisory

{
  "id": "bad74cde9ff17135714a11f917b0caba1e2ab16b40c271bfda33dbfe810952b4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-41991",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2024-41991",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, and the AdminURLFieldWidget widget, are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-41991",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-41991",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-django-2024-41991",
        "CVE-2024-41991",
        "GHSA-r836-hh6v-rg5g",
        "PYSEC-2024-69"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/django/django",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "97aa3b7f08f51669e118f3af5ca91026e39664c3"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "4d32ebcd57340aa8de2d6d31613f1646dc6391f6"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "52821001bb62b764d73e63812133f199b8fef9eb"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "84d1102a8a3bba64bcc1b14a7117c26a83fb7fe5"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.2.15"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "5.0.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-41991.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.425898424Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/",
        "https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/41xxx/CVE-2024-41991.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41991",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240905-0007/",
        "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/41xxx/CVE-2024-41991.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-41991",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 499656,
  "published_at": "2024-08-07T00:00:00+00:00"
}