[4.2.x] Fixed CVE-2024-53907 -- Mitigated potential DoS in strip_tags().

Thanks to jiangniao for the report, and Shai Berger and Natalia Bidart
for the reviews.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/4.2.17.txt b/docs/releases/4.2.17.txt
index 5139d7034d..9db07f6da7 100644
--- a/docs/releases/4.2.17.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/4.2.17.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,19 @@ Django 4.2.17 release notes
 
 Django 4.2.17 fixes one security issue with severity "high" and one security
 issue with severity "moderate" in 4.2.16.
+
+CVE-2024-53907: Denial-of-service possibility in ``strip_tags()``
+=================================================================
+
+:func:`~django.utils.html.strip_tags` would be extremely slow to evaluate
+certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.
+The ``strip_tags()`` method is used to implement the corresponding
+:tfilter:`striptags` template filter, which was thus also vulnerable.
+
+``strip_tags()`` now has an upper limit of recursive calls to ``HTMLParser``
+before raising a :exc:`.SuspiciousOperation` exception.
+
+Remember that absolutely NO guarantee is provided about the results of
+``strip_tags()`` being HTML safe. So NEVER mark safe the result of a
+``strip_tags()`` call without escaping it first, for example with
+:func:`django.utils.html.escape`.