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SCA: security update for django (GHSA-78vx-ggch-wghm)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431857

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The (1) django.http.HttpResponseRedirect and (2) django.http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect classes in
 Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 do not validate the scheme of a redirect target, which might
 allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a data: URL. (CVE-2012-3442)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-78vx-ggch-wghm

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 431857

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3442

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3442

BID: 54742

cwe: CWE-79