Django Blog Django security releases issued: 5.1.4, 5.0.10, and 4.2.17

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.1.4, Django 5.0.10, and Django 4.2.17. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2024-53907: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags() The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities. Thanks to jiangniao for the report. This issue has severity "moderate" according to the Django security policy. CVE-2024-53908: Potential SQL injection in HasKey(lhs, rhs) on Oracle Direct usage of the django.db.models.fields.json.HasKey lookup on Oracle is subject to SQL injection if untrusted data is used as a lhs value. Applications that use the jsonfield.has_key lookup through the __ syntax are unaffected. Thanks to Seokchan Yoon for the report. This issue has severity "high" according to the Django security policy. Affected supported versions Django main Django 5.1 Django 5.0 Django 4.2 Resolution Patches to resolve the issue have been applied to Django's main, 5.1, 5.0, and 4.2 branches. The patches may be obtained from the following changesets. CVE-2024-53907: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags() On the main branch On the 5.1 branch On the 5.0 branch On the 4.2 branch CVE-2024-53908: Potential SQL injection in HasKey(lhs, rhs) on Oracle On the main branch On the 5.1 branch On the 5.0 branch On the 4.2 branch The following releases have been issued Django 5.1.4 (download Django 5.1.4 | 5.1.4 checksums) Django 5.0.10 (download Django 5.0.10 | 5.0.10 checksums) Django 4.2.17 (download Django 4.2.17 | 4.2.17 checksums) The PGP key ID used for this release is Sarah Boyce: 3955B19851EA96EF General notes regarding security reporting As always, we ask that potential security issues be reported via private email to security@djangoproject.com, and not via Django's Trac instance, nor via the Django Forum, nor via the django-developers list. Please see our security policies for further information.