Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-28493  

A security issue was found in python-jinja before version 2.11.3. The regular expression denial of service vulnerability is mainly due to the sub-pattern [a-zA-Z0-9._-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+ This issue can be mitigated by Markdown to format user content instead of the urlize filter, or by implementing request timeouts and limiting process memory.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

A security issue was found in python-jinja before version 2.11.3. The regular expression denial of service vulnerability is mainly due to the sub-pattern [a-zA-Z0-9._-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+ This issue can be mitigated by Markdown to format user content instead of the urlize filter, or by implementing request timeouts and limiting process memory.

AVG-1523 python-jinja, python2-jinja 2.11.2-4 Low Vulnerable

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-JINJA2-1012994
https://github.com/pallets/jinja/pull/1343
https://github.com/pallets/jinja/commit/ef658dc3b6389b091d608e710a810ce8b87995b3

Workaround
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This issue can be mitigated by Markdown to format user content instead of the urlize filter, or by implementing request timeouts and limiting process memory.