CVE-2017-12794

Description

In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with "DEBUG = True" (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases/
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12794
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/58e08e80e362db79eb0fd775dc81faad90dca47a
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/e35a0c56086924f331e9422daa266e907a4784cc
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9
• https://github.com/django/django
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2017-44.yaml
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170927072701/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200227150819/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12794

CWEs

CWE-79