CVE-2015-2317

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3204

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2539-1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-0018

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73319

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:195

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160263.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-03-25

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0128