CVE-2015-2317

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.20, 1.5.x, 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1 does not properly validate URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a control character in a URL, as demonstrated by a \x08javascript: URL.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160263.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2539-1Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3204Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:195Broken Link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73319
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/Vendor Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160263.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2539-1Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3204Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:195Broken Link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73319
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 25, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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