CVE-2015-0220

Advisory

The django.util.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 does not properly handle leading whitespaces, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL, related to redirect URLs, as demonstrated by a "\njavascript:" URL.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The django.util.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 does not properly handle leading whitespaces, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL, related to redirect URLs, as demonstrated by a "\njavascript:" URL.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0220
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62285
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/13/security/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62309
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2469-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62718
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0026.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:036
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html