Django vulnerable to Denial of Service
Summary
CVE-2024-38875: Django vulnerable to Denial of Service. Affects django across 2 version ranges.
>= 4.2, < 4.2.14
>= 5.0, < 5.0.7
Fixed in 4.2.14 or 5.0.7, depending on the release line you run. How to fix ↓
Also tracked for
- django · Bitnami
- python-django · Debian:11
The same CVE-2024-38875 is tracked separately for each ecosystem and vendor. Its fix information is the same; the package and affected versions differ.
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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.
How To Fix
Latest published version: 6.1.2 as of 22 Oct 2026
pip install --upgrade "django==6.1.2"Upgrading to it may include breaking changes; the versions below are the minimum fixed release for this vulnerability.
If you can't move to the latest
The minimum fixed version depends on the release line you run.
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>= 4.2, < 4.2.144.2.14pip install --upgrade "django==4.2.14" -
>= 5.0, < 5.0.75.0.7pip install --upgrade "django==5.0.7"
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