PT-2012-5457 · Django · Django

James Kettle · Published 2012-11-18 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-4520

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions 1.3.x through 1.3.3 Django versions 1.4.x through 1.4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to generate and display arbitrary URLs via crafted username and password Host header values in the django.http.HttpRequest.get host function.

Recommendations For Django versions 1.3.x through 1.3.3, update to version 1.3.4 or later. For Django versions 1.4.x through 1.4.1, update to version 1.4.2 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4520

DSA-2634-1

GHSA-2655-Q453-22F9

PYSEC-2012-7

Affected Products

Django

References · 34

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4520 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/oct/17/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4520 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1632-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090970.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51033 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1632-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090666.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090666.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090904.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2012-7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4520 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2655-q453-22f9 · Vendor Advisory