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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Django vulnerabilities (USN-4043-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126445

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 19.04.
(CVE-2019-12308)

Gavin Wahl discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass credentials and access administrator interface. (CVE-2019-12781).

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

Solution

Update the affected python-django, python-django-common and / or python3-django packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4043-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126445

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4043-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2019

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12781

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 Score Source: CVE-2019-12308

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-django, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-django-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-django, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12308, CVE-2019-12781

USN: 4043-1