CVE-2016-2512

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.

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases/

https://github.com/django/django/commit/c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-3

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83879

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3544

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0506.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0505.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0504.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0502.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4