CVE-2024-27351

Exploitation

Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.

SSVC decision

• ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
• AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
• Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.

CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.

EPSS probability

1.85% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 78.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2024-03-15 00:00Z2 YR AGO

Last updated

2025-11-04 18:30Z11 MO AGO

Reserved

2024-02-25

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Medium (CVSS 5.3)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-1333Inefficient Regular Expression ComplexityBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

beef68ad9496f9d692f13d5bad2bb5cf52a719413dc51d073e04dc51729eb691

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• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20240304 Django: CVE-2024-27351: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words()http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/04/1mailing-list
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