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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421983

Description

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

 - In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of
 the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site
 scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with
 "DEBUG = True" (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings. (CVE-2017-12794)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421983

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

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-2017-12794

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: 1/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12794

BID: 100643

cwe: CWE-79