CVE-2021-44420

medium
Published 2021-12-09 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In Django 2.2 before 2.2.25, 3.1 before 3.1.14, and 3.2 before 3.2.10, HTTP requests for URLs with trailing newlines could bypass upstream access control based on URL paths.

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-2021-44420

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:5498

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44420.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.2.10-1
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed2:3.2.10-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:2.2.25-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2:3.2.10-1
debian debiansidfixed2:3.2.10-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:3.2.10-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIdjango>=2.2a1,<2.2.252.2.25
python PyPIdjango>=3.0a1,<3.1.143.1.14
python PyPIdjango>=3.2a1,<3.2.103.2.10
python PyPIdjango>=3.2,<3.2.102.2.25

References

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