CVE-2015-5144

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    CVE-2015-5144

    Published: 14 Jul 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.

    References: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75665, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High