Debian DLA-1629-1 : python-django security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120962

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a content-spoofing vulnerability in the default 404 pages in the Django web development framework.

For more information, please see :

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/jan/04/security-releases/

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in python-django version 1.7.11-1+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00005.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/python-django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/jan/04/security-releases/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120962

File Name: debian_DLA-1629.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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 v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-django, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-django-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-django-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-django, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3498