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SCA: security update for Django, django (GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434365

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 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers
 to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site
 scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by
 http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com. (CVE-2016-2512)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434365

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

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-2016-2512

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.3

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:N/SI:H/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2512

BID: 83879

cwe: CWE-79