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Ubuntu: USN-3039-1 (CVE-2016-6186): Django vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3039-1 (CVE-2016-6186): Django vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/19/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js in Django before 1.8.14, 1.9.x before 1.9.8, and 1.10.x before 1.10rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving unsafe usage of Element.innerHTML.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-django
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-django

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