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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-2512): Django vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 7, 2016
Added
Mar 7, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-python-djangoubuntu-upgrade-python3-django
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