django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.8 has an Open Redirect.

This update for python-Django to version 2.08 fixes the following issues :

The following security vulnerability was fixed :

  - CVE-2018-14574: Fixed an redirection vulnerability in     CommonMiddleware (boo#1102680)

The following other bugs were fixed :

  - Fixed a regression in Django 2.0.7 that broke the regex     lookup on MariaDB

  - Fixed a regression where django.template.Template     crashed if the template_string argument is lazy

  - Fixed __regex and __iregex lookups with MySQL

  - Fixed admin check crash when using a query expression in     ModelAdmin.ordering

  - Fixed admin changelist crash when using a query     expression without asc() or desc() in the page&rsquo;s     ordering

  - Fixed a regression that broke custom template filters     that use decorators

  - Fixed detection of custom URL converters in included     pattern

  - Fixed a regression that added an unnecessary subquery to     the GROUP BY clause on MySQL when using a RawSQL     annotation

  - Fixed WKBWriter.write() and write_hex() for empty     polygons on GEOS 3.6.1+

  - Fixed a regression in Django 1.10 that could result in     large memory usage when making edits using     ModelAdmin.list_editable

  - Corrected the import paths that inspectdb generates for     django.contrib.postgres fields

  - Fixed crashes in django.contrib.admindocs when a view is     a callable object, such as     django.contrib.syndication.views.Feed

  - Fixed a regression in Django 1.11.12 where     QuerySet.values() or values_list() after combining an     annotated and unannotated queryset with union(),     difference(), or intersection() crashed due to     mismatching columns

This update for python-Django1 to version 1.11.15 fixes the following issues :

The following security vulnerability was fixed :

  - CVE-2018-14574: Fixed an open redirect possibility in     CommonMiddleware (boo#1102680)

The following other bugs were fixed :

  - Fixed WKBWriter.write() and write_hex() for empty     polygons on GEOS 3.6.1+

  - Fixed a regression where altering a field with a unique     constraint may drop and rebuild more foreign keys than     necessary

  - Fixed crashes in django.contrib.admindocs when a view is     a callable object, such as     django.contrib.syndication.views.Feed

  - Fixed a regression where QuerySet.values() or     values_list() after combining an annotated and     unannotated queryset with union(), difference(), or     intersection() crashed due to mismatching columns

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0265 advisory.

    Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration includes a fully automated setup based on Ansible and provides     deep metrics and insights into active Gluster storage pools by using the Grafana platform. Red Hat Gluster     Storage WebAdministration provides a dashboard view which allows an administrator to get a view of overall     gluster health in terms of hosts, volumes, bricks, and other components of GlusterFS.

    Security Fix(es):

    * django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and 'urlizetrunc' (CVE-2018-7536)

    * django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'truncatechars_html' and     'truncatewords_html' (CVE-2018-7537)

    * django: Open redirect possibility in CommonMiddleware (CVE-2018-14574)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank the Django project for reporting CVE-2018-7536 and CVE-2018-7537.

    Users of Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration with Red Hat Gluster Storage are advised to upgrade to     this updated package to fix these issues.

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Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

bugfix update to 2.0.9

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Update to 1.11.15 security release (CVE-2018-14574)

This fixes an open redirect possibility in CommonMiddleware. Release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/1.11.15/

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Andreas Hug discovered an open redirect in Django, a Python web development framework, which is exploitable ifdjango.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware is used and the APPEND_SLASH setting is enabled.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3726-1 advisory.

    Andreas Hug discovered that Django contained an open redirect in CommonMiddleware. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to perform phishing attacks.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
123267	openSUSE Security Update : python-Django (openSUSE-2019-614)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
123266	openSUSE Security Update : python-Django1 (openSUSE-2019-608)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
121606	RHEL 7 : Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration (RHSA-2019:0265)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
120517	Fedora 29 : python-django (2018-6fa1017c1d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
120229	Fedora 28 : python2-django1.11 (2018-0c85690ba7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
112137	openSUSE Security Update : python-Django (openSUSE-2018-914)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
111810	openSUSE Security Update : python-Django1 (openSUSE-2018-875)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
111537	Debian DSA-4264-1 : python-django - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
111511	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Django vulnerability (USN-3726-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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