GHSA-fwr5-q9rx-294fHighCVSS 6.5

Improper query string handling in Django

Published
July 23, 2018
Last Modified
May 19, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The administrative interface in django.contrib.admin in Django before 1.1.3, 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.3.x before 1.3 beta 1 does not properly restrict use of the query string to perform certain object filtering, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a series of requests containing regular expressions, as demonstrated by a created_by__password__regex parameter.

🎯 Affected products2

  • pip/django:< 1.1.3
  • pip/Django:>= 1.2, < 1.2.4

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