CVE-2016-2512

Aliases:GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7PYSEC-2016-15
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 14
Modified
Published: 08 Apr 2016, 15:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 23:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.4 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.2% LOW
1% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

08 Apr 2016, 15:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 23:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.20%• Percentile: 79%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-79•Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

    The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

Affected Systems

  • djangoproject•django

    1.8.9 | 1.9 | 1.9.1 | 1.9.2

  • PyPI•django

    < 1.8.10 | ≥ 1.9a1, < 1.9.3 | < c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0 | ≥ 1.9, < 1.9.3

References (21)