Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting py-django package, versions <1.8.14-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
5.58% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE35-PYDJANGO-468271
  • published22 Sept 2019
  • disclosed22 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2019

CVE-2016-6186  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.5 py-django to version 1.8.14-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream py-django package and not the py-django package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js in Django before 1.8.14, 1.9.x before 1.9.8, and 1.10.x before 1.10rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving unsafe usage of Element.innerHTML.