# CVE-2024-38875: An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7.

- Also known as: GHSA-QG2P-9JWR-MMQF, BIT-DJANGO-2024-38875, PYSEC-2024-56
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.2.14, 5.0.7
- Published: 2024-07-10 · Updated: 2025-11-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- django (PyPI): from 4.2, fixed in 4.2.14
- django (PyPI): from 5.0, fixed in 5.0.7
- django (PyPI): from 4.2, fixed in 4.2.14; from 5.0, fixed in 5.0.7

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Django, upgrade to a fixed version (4.2.14, 5.0.7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- 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/

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