CVE-2015-2316

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.048 · 92 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.83% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

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31 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The utils.html.strip_tags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.3–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimaryCWE-770US

affected products (31)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 10.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 12.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.6.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
djangoproject django= 1.7.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-j3j3-jrfh-cm2wDjango Denial-of-service possibility with strip_tags2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
The `utils.html.strip_tags` function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.
PYSEC-2015-182015-03-25vendor · osvUS
The utils.html.strip_tags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2015-03-25modified 2026-06-17

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