GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-hvmf-r92r-27hr Django allows unintended model editing

HIGH Published 2019-12-04 Modified 2024-11-18 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-19118
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
Django
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-276
Reviewed
2019-12-04

Affected packages

• PyPI Django: >= 2.1, < 2.1.15 → fixed in 2.1.15 • PyPI Django: >= 2.2, < 2.2.8 → fixed in 2.2.8

Description

Django 2.1 before 2.1.15 and 2.2 before 2.2.8 allows unintended model editing. A Django model admin displaying inline related models, where the user has view-only permissions to a parent model but edit permissions to the inline model, would be presented with an editing UI, allowing POST requests, for updating the inline model. Directly editing the view-only parent model was not possible, but the parent model's save() method was called, triggering potential side effects, and causing pre and post-save signal handlers to be invoked. (To resolve this, the Django admin is adjusted to require edit permissions on the parent model in order for inline models to be editable.)

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-19118 Django 2.1 before 2.1.15 and 2.2 before 2.2.8 allows unintended model editing. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness

References