XSS in Djangoproject Django
CVE-2015-2317
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.050 (91.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Djangoproject Django — versions 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.2
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 22
- openSUSE — versions 13.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2539-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/73319 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3204 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160263.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/ (Vendor Advisory)