CVE-2022-36359

high

Description

An issue was discovered in the HTTP FileResponse class in Django 3.2 before 3.2.15 and 4.0 before 4.0.7. An application is vulnerable to a reflected file download (RFD) attack that sets the Content-Disposition header of a FileResponse when the filename is derived from user-supplied input.

References

Advisories
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https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5254

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220915-0008/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTZVAKU5ALQWOKFTPISE257VCVIYGFQI/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWY6DQWRVBALV73BPUVBXC3QIYUM24IK/

https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce/c/8cz--gvaJr4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/03/1

https://github.com/CarterPerez-dev/angela

https://github.com/graydonhope/VulnerabilityScanner

https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2022-36359

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8x94-hmjh-97hq

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/aug/03/security-releases/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-0092

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/security/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-08-03

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00347