Django Denial-of-service possibility in truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters

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Severity and exploitation

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.044, the 91st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 4 Jan 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

• GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4
• OSV: GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7537
• github.com/django/django/commit/94c5da1d17a6b0d378866c66b605102c19f7988c
• github.com/django/django/commit/a91436360b79a6ff995c3e5018bcc666dfaf1539
• github.com/django/django/commit/d17974a287a6ea2e361daff88fcc004cbd6835fa
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0265
• github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f9x-5v75-3qv4
• github.com/django/django
• github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2018-6.yaml
• lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html
• usn.ubuntu.com/3591-1
• www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4161

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.