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CVE-2015-2316

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2316 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the utils.html.strip_tags function of Django versions 1.6.x, 1.7.x, and 1.8.x, affecting various distributions including canonical, fedoraproject, opensuse, and oracle. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop by manipulating the input string length, leading to service disruption. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium), this vulnerability is relatively easy to exploit but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.6:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.6:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.6:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0496 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (5)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.6.11
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.7.7
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.8c1
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)Fixed in: python-django
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: python-django

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-j3j3-jrfh-cm2whigh

Django Denial-of-service possibility with strip_tags

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-2316Moderate

Django: possible denial of service in strip_tags()

Mar 18, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory
djangoproject.com / weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases
PatchVendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/73322
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2539-1
Third Party Advisory