Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-27351

Medium

Published: 15 March 2024

Published
15 March 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0261 86.0th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-27351 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Djangoproject Django. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 14.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.25, 4.2 before 4.2.11, and 5.0 before 5.0.3, the django.utils.text.Truncator.words() method (with html=True) and the truncatewords_html template filter are subject to a potential regular expression denial-of-service attack via a crafted string. NOTE: this issue exists because…

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of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14232 and CVE-2023-43665.

CWE(s)
CWE-1333

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

djangoproject
django
3.2 — 3.2.25 · 4.2 — 4.2.11 · 5.0 — 5.0.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References