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SUSE: CVE-2016-2512: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-2512: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/28/2018
Modified
06/29/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-python-django
  • suse-upgrade-python3-django

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