CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2512

7.4 HIGH Published 2016-04-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

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.

Affected configurations

• djangoproject django 1.8.9 • djangoproject django 1.9 • djangoproject django 1.9.1 • djangoproject django 1.9.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References