Fixed CVE-2024-38875 -- Mitigated potential DoS in urlize and urlizetrunc template filters.

Thank you to Elias Myllymäki for the report.

Co-authored-by: Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@users.noreply.github.com>

django/utils/html.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from urllib.parse import parse_qsl, quote, unquote, urlencode, urlsplit, urlunsp
 
 from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango60Warning
 from django.utils.encoding import punycode
-from django.utils.functional import Promise, keep_lazy, keep_lazy_text
+from django.utils.functional import Promise, cached_property, keep_lazy, keep_lazy_text
 from django.utils.http import RFC3986_GENDELIMS, RFC3986_SUBDELIMS
 from django.utils.regex_helper import _lazy_re_compile
 from django.utils.safestring import SafeData, SafeString, mark_safe
@@ -257,6 +257,16 @@ def smart_urlquote(url):
     return urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment))
 
 
+class CountsDict(dict):
+    def __init__(self, *args, word, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, *kwargs)
+        self.word = word
+
+    def __missing__(self, key):
+        self[key] = self.word.count(key)
+        return self[key]
+
+
 class Urlizer:
     """
     Convert any URLs in text into clickable links.
@@ -362,40 +372,72 @@ class Urlizer:
             return x
         return "%s…" % x[: max(0, limit - 1)]
 
+    @cached_property
+    def wrapping_punctuation_openings(self):
+        return "".join(dict(self.wrapping_punctuation).keys())
+
+    @cached_property
+    def trailing_punctuation_chars_no_semicolon(self):
+        return self.trailing_punctuation_chars.replace(";", "")
+
+    @cached_property
+    def trailing_punctuation_chars_has_semicolon(self):
+        return ";" in self.trailing_punctuation_chars
+
     def trim_punctuation(self, word):
         """
         Trim trailing and wrapping punctuation from `word`. Return the items of
         the new state.
         """
-        lead, middle, trail = "", word, ""
+        # Strip all opening wrapping punctuation.
+        middle = word.lstrip(self.wrapping_punctuation_openings)
+        lead = word[: len(word) - len(middle)]
+        trail = ""
+
         # Continue trimming until middle remains unchanged.
         trimmed_something = True
-        while trimmed_something:
+        counts = CountsDict(word=middle)
+        while trimmed_something and middle:
             trimmed_something = False
             # Trim wrapping punctuation.
             for opening, closing in self.wrapping_punctuation:
-                if middle.startswith(opening):
+                if counts[opening] < counts[closing]:
-                    middle = middle.removeprefix(opening)
+                    rstripped = middle.rstrip(closing)
-                    lead += opening
+                    if rstripped != middle:
-                    trimmed_something = True
+                        strip = counts[closing] - counts[opening]
-                # Keep parentheses at the end only if they're balanced.
+                        trail = middle[-strip:]
-                if (
+                        middle = middle[:-strip]
-                    middle.endswith(closing)
+                        trimmed_something = True
-                    and middle.count(closing) == middle.count(opening) + 1
+                        counts[closing] -= strip
-                ):
+
-                    middle = middle.removesuffix(closing)
+            rstripped = middle.rstrip(self.trailing_punctuation_chars_no_semicolon)
-                    trail = closing + trail
+            if rstripped != middle:
-                    trimmed_something = True
+                trail = middle[len(rstripped) :] + trail
-            # Trim trailing punctuation (after trimming wrapping punctuation,
+                middle = rstripped
-            # as encoded entities contain ';'). Unescape entities to avoid
-            # breaking them by removing ';'.
-            middle_unescaped = html.unescape(middle)
-            stripped = middle_unescaped.rstrip(self.trailing_punctuation_chars)
-            if middle_unescaped != stripped:
-                punctuation_count = len(middle_unescaped) - len(stripped)
-                trail = middle[-punctuation_count:] + trail
-                middle = middle[:-punctuation_count]
                 trimmed_something = True
+
+            if self.trailing_punctuation_chars_has_semicolon and middle.endswith(";"):
+                # Only strip if not part of an HTML entity.
+                amp = middle.rfind("&")
+                if amp == -1:
+                    can_strip = True
+                else:
+                    potential_entity = middle[amp:]
+                    escaped = html.unescape(potential_entity)
+                    can_strip = (escaped == potential_entity) or escaped.endswith(";")
+
+                if can_strip:
+                    rstripped = middle.rstrip(";")
+                    amount_stripped = len(middle) - len(rstripped)
+                    if amp > -1 and amount_stripped > 1:
+                        # Leave a trailing semicolon as might be an entity.
+                        trail = middle[len(rstripped) + 1 :] + trail
+                        middle = rstripped + ";"
+                    else:
+                        trail = middle[len(rstripped) :] + trail
+                        middle = rstripped
+                    trimmed_something = True
+
         return lead, middle, trail
 
     @staticmethod

docs/releases/4.2.14.txt

@@ -7,3 +7,9 @@ Django 4.2.14 release notes
 Django 4.2.14 fixes two security issues with severity "moderate" and two
 security issues with severity "low" in 4.2.13.
 
+CVE-2024-38875: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in ``django.utils.html.urlize()``
+===========================================================================================
+
+:tfilter:`urlize` and :tfilter:`urlizetrunc` were subject to a potential
+denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of
+brackets.

docs/releases/5.0.7.txt

@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ Django 5.0.7 release notes
 Django 5.0.7 fixes two security issues with severity "moderate", two security
 issues with severity "low", and several bugs in 5.0.6.
 
+CVE-2024-38875: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in ``django.utils.html.urlize()``
+===========================================================================================
+
+:tfilter:`urlize` and :tfilter:`urlizetrunc` were subject to a potential
+denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of
+brackets.
+
 Bugfixes
 ========
 

tests/utils_tests/test_html.py

@@ -352,6 +352,13 @@ class TestUtilsHtml(SimpleTestCase):
             "foo@.example.com",
             "foo@localhost",
             "foo@localhost.",
+            # trim_punctuation catastrophic tests
+            "(" * 100_000 + ":" + ")" * 100_000,
+            "(" * 100_000 + "&:" + ")" * 100_000,
+            "([" * 100_000 + ":" + "])" * 100_000,
+            "[(" * 100_000 + ":" + ")]" * 100_000,
+            "([[" * 100_000 + ":" + "]])" * 100_000,
+            "&:" + ";" * 100_000,
         )
         for value in tests:
             with self.subTest(value=value):