"The product specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared." - Entry from the Common Weakness Enumeration
For more info visit CWE-185
| Vulnerability | Description | Curator Note | Announced | Upvotes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A vulnerability existed in two methods when passed a certain argument. Passing this argument lead to backtracking in a regular expression which resulted in extremly slow evaluation times. This method could be called repeatedly and overflow the system. ... | By having a loosley-defined regular expression backtracking became prevelant when truncating HTML text. Updating the regular expression fixed the vulnerability. | 2019-08-02 | 5 | |
| A vulnerability in Django was found that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on a targeted system. The vulnerability can be found in the django.utils.html.urlize() function and is due to insufficient validation of user provided... | 2018-03-09 | 4 |
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