PYSEC-2016-15

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    PYSEC-2016-15

    Published: 8 Apr 2016Last Modified: 10 Jun 2026

    Summary:

    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://github.com/django/django/commit/c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases/, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0504.html, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83879, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-2, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-3, http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3544, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0502.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0505.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0506.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-1, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: django

    Purl: pkg:pypi/django

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0

    Affected versions

    1.0.1
    1.0.2
    1.0.3
    1.0.4
    1.0

    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
    PYSEC-2016-15 | CVE-DB