GHSA-gv98-g628-m9x5MediumCVSS 6.1
Django Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The django.util.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 does not properly handle leading whitespaces, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL, related to redirect URLs, as demonstrated by a \njavascript: URL.
🎯 Affected products3
- pip/django:< 1.4.18
- pip/Django:>= 1.6, < 1.6.10
- pip/Django:>= 1.7, < 1.7.3
🔗 References (17)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0220
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2469-1
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/4c241f1b710da6419d9dca160e80b23b82db7758
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/72e0b033662faa11bb7f516f18a132728aa0ae28
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/de67dedc771ad2edec15c1d00c083a1a084e1e89
- https://github.com/django/django/blob/4555a823fd57e261e1b19c778429473256c8ea08/docs/releases/1.4.18.txt#L34-L46
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150128111656/http://secunia.com/advisories/62285
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150523054951/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2015:109/?name=MDVSA-2015:109
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150523054953/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2015:036/?name=MDVSA-2015:036
- https://web.archive.org/web/20151104201446/http://secunia.com/advisories/62718
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-5.yaml
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/13/security
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gv98-g628-m9x5