🛡️ CVE-2015-2317 — django

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Django cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via user-supplied redirect URLs

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-2317 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2015-2317 is recorded against 1 package.

  • django (from 1.8a1 up to 1.8c1)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 18 September 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
www.djangoproject.com (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
ubuntu.com (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-09-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
django 1.8a1 1.8c1

References

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