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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-7fq8-4pv5-5w5c)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433018

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2015-2317)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7fq8-4pv5-5w5c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433018

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

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: Medium

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-2015-2317

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: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2317

BID: 73319

cwe: CWE-79