Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting python-django package, versions <1.7.7-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-PYTHONDJANGO-1557676
  • published25 Mar 2015
  • disclosed25 Mar 2015

Introduced: 25 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-2317  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 python-django to version 1.7.7-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-django package and not the python-django package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.20, 1.5.x, 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1 does not properly validate URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a control character in a URL, as demonstrated by a \x08javascript: URL.

CVSS Scores

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