PT-2012-4715 · Django · Django

Kurt Seifried · Published 2012-07-31 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-3442

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

9.3

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions prior to 1.3.2 Django versions 1.4.x prior to 1.4.1

Description The django.http.HttpResponseRedirect and django.http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect classes in Django do not validate the scheme of a redirect target, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a data: URL.

Recommendations For Django versions prior to 1.3.2, update to version 1.3.2 or later. For Django versions 1.4.x prior to 1.4.1, update to version 1.4.1 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3442

DSA-2529-1

GHSA-78VX-GGCH-WGHM

PYSEC-2012-2

Affected Products

Django

References · 16

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3442 · Vendor Advisory
• https://djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/security-releases-issued · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2529 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2012-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-78vx-ggch-wghm · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3442 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:143 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1560-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3442 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3442 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/django/django · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/e34685034b60be1112160e76091e5aee60149fa1 · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/4dea4883e6c50d75f215a6b9bcbd95273f57c72d · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2012-2.yaml · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/1 · Note