CVE-2015-5144

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Published 2015-07-14 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5144

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.7.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.7.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.7.9-1
debian debiansidfixed1.7.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.7.9-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIdjango<1.4.211.4.21
python PyPIdjango>=1.5,<1.7.91.7.9
python PyPIdjango>=1.8a1,<1.8.31.8.3
python PyPIdjango>=1.8,<1.8.31.4.21

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
djangoprojectdjango{"endIncluding":"1.4.20"}
djangoprojectdjango1.5
djangoprojectdjango1.5.1
djangoprojectdjango1.5.2
djangoprojectdjango1.5.3
djangoprojectdjango1.5.4
djangoprojectdjango1.5.5
djangoprojectdjango1.5.6
djangoprojectdjango1.5.7
djangoprojectdjango1.5.8
djangoprojectdjango1.5.9
djangoprojectdjango1.5.10
djangoprojectdjango1.5.11
djangoprojectdjango1.5.12
djangoprojectdjango1.6
djangoprojectdjango1.6.1
djangoprojectdjango1.6.2
djangoprojectdjango1.6.3
djangoprojectdjango1.6.4
djangoprojectdjango1.6.5
djangoprojectdjango1.6.6
djangoprojectdjango1.6.7
djangoprojectdjango1.6.8
djangoprojectdjango1.6.9
djangoprojectdjango1.6.10
djangoprojectdjango1.7
djangoprojectdjango1.7.1
djangoprojectdjango1.7.2
djangoprojectdjango1.7.3
djangoprojectdjango1.7.4
djangoprojectdjango1.7.5
djangoprojectdjango1.7.6
djangoprojectdjango1.7.7
djangoprojectdjango1.7.8
djangoprojectdjango1.7.9
djangoprojectdjango1.8
djangoprojectdjango1.8.0
djangoprojectdjango1.8.1
djangoprojectdjango1.8.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.