Upstream information

CVE-2025-32873 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (MITRE) National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 5.3 7.5 5.9
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low High
Privileges Required None None None
User Interaction None None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None None
Integrity Impact None None None
Availability Impact Low High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1242210 [IN_PROGRESS]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6
  • python311-Django >= 4.2.11-150600.3.21.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-1523
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7
  • python311-Django >= 4.2.11-150600.3.21.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2025-1523
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6
  • python3-Django >= 2.2.28-bp156.9.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2025-161
openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • python3-Django >= 2.2.28-bp156.9.1
  • python311-Django >= 4.2.11-150600.3.21.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2025-161
openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-1523
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • python311-Django >= 5.2.1-1.1
  • python311-Django4 >= 4.2.21-1.1
  • python312-Django >= 5.2.1-1.1
  • python312-Django4 >= 4.2.21-1.1
  • python313-Django >= 5.2.1-1.1
  • python313-Django4 >= 4.2.21-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15082
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15087

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 python-Django Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 python-Django Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6 python-Django Released
openSUSE Leap 15.6 python-Django Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
openSUSE Leap 15.5 python-Django Ignore

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon May 5 10:00:11 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Jun 18 12:38:07 2025