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SCA: security update for Django, django (GHSA-q5qw-4364-5hhm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433120

Description

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

 - Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect
 regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response
 splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the
 URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.
 (CVE-2015-5144)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q5qw-4364-5hhm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433120

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/12/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

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-2015-5144

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5144

BID: 75665

cwe: CWE-20