UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6186

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6186

    Published: 18 Jul 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-6186
    Aliases:
    USN-3039-1

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js in Django before 1.8.14, 1.9.x before 1.9.8, and 1.10.x before 1.10rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving unsafe usage of Element.innerHTML.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6186, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/jul/18/security-releases/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3039-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6186

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-django

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.8.7-1ubuntu5.1

    Affected versions

    1.7.9-1ubuntu5

    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
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