CVE-2016-2512

Description

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0502.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0504.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0505.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0506.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3544
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83879
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-3
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/c5544d289233f501917e25970c03ed444abbd4f0
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases/
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2512
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/382ab137312961ad62feb8109d70a5a581fe8350
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/fc6d147a63f89795dbcdecb0559256470fff4380
• https://github.com/django/django
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2016-15.yaml
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210123090815/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83879
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210413200202/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2512

CWEs

CWE-79