CVE-2016-2512
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-08 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:32
Severity ?
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0502.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0504.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0505.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0506.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3544
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83879
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-3
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/django/django/commit/c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0502.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0504.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0505.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0506.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3544
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83879
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/django/django/commit/c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases/Vendor Advisory
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