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CVE-2020-28493

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-28493 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting Jinja2 versions prior to 2.11.3, specifically due to an inefficient regex in the urlize filter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited over a network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE. Mitigation strategies include using Markdown for content formatting or implementing request timeouts and memory limits.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:palletsprojects:jinja:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0355 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (40)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19608-17084Fixed in: 20.14.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16990-17084Fixed in: 20.14.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19095-16820Fixed in: 2.11.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 ARMFixed in: 2.11.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 nodejs 20.14.0-8 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 20.14.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 nodejs 20.14.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 20.14.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 python-jinja2 2.11.3-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 2.11.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 x64Fixed in: 2.11.3-1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: jinja2Fixed in: 2.11.3
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python27-python-0:2.7.18-3.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python27-python-jinja2-0:2.6-16.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python27-python-pygments-0:1.5-5.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-python38-babel-0:2.7.0-12.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-python38-python-0:3.8.11-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-python38-python-cryptography-0:2.8-5.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-python38-python-jinja2-0:2.10.3-6.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-python38-python-lxml-0:4.4.1-7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-python38-python-pip-0:19.3.1-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-python38-python-urllib3-0:1.25.7-7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: python27-babel-0:0.9.6-10.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: python27-python-0:2.7.18-3.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: python27-python-jinja2-0:2.6-16.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: python27-python-pygments-0:1.5-5.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-python38-babel-0:2.7.0-12.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-python38-python-0:3.8.11-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-python38-python-cryptography-0:2.8-5.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-python38-python-jinja2-0:2.10.3-6.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-python38-python-lxml-0:4.4.1-7.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-python38-python-pip-0:19.3.1-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-python38-python-urllib3-0:1.25.7-7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python38-devel:3.8-8050020210811101222.e3d35cca
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python27:2.7-8050020210811095446.3e7ace8b
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python-jinja2-0:2.10.1-3.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python38:3.8-8050020210811101222.e3d35cca
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python27-babel-0:0.9.6-10.el7
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: python-jinja2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Fixed in: python-jinja2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3Fixed in: python-jinja2

Vendor Advisories (4)

microsoft2022-Jun/CVE-2020-28493

CVE-2020-28493

Jun 14, 2022
pipGHSA-g3rq-g295-4j3mmedium

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Jinja2

Mar 19, 2021
microsoft2021-Feb/CVE-2020-28493Moderate

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Feb 9, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-28493Moderate

python-jinja2: ReDoS vulnerability in the urlize filter

Feb 1, 2021

References

github.com / pallets/jinja/blob/ab81fd9c277900c85da0c322a2ff9d68a235b2e6/src/jinja2/utils.py%23L20
Broken Link
github.com / pallets/jinja/pull/1343
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PVAKCOO7VBVUBM3Q6CBBTPBFNP5NDXF4
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202107-19
Third Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-JINJA2-1012994
ExploitThird Party Advisory