GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7

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GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7

Summary: Django XSS Vulnerability

Details: 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2512, https://github.com/django/django/commit/382ab137312961ad62feb8109d70a5a581fe8350, https://github.com/django/django/commit/c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0, https://github.com/django/django/commit/fc6d147a63f89795dbcdecb0559256470fff4380, https://github.com/django/django, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2016-15.yaml, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123090815/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83879, https://web.archive.org/web/20210413200202/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0502.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0504.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0505.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0506.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3544, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-2, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-3