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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : Django vulnerabilities (USN-8009-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 297803

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8009-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Django exposed timing information when checking passwords. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2025-13473)

 Jiyong Yang discovered that Django incorrectly handled malformed requests with duplicate headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-14550)

 Tarek Nakkouch discovered that Django incorrectly parsed raster lookups. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-1207)

 Seokchan Yoon discovered that Django incorrectly handled malformed HTML inputs containing a large amount of unmatched HTML end tags. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-1285)

 Solomon Kebede discovered that Django incorrectly handled control characters in the dictionary expansion of certain QuerySet methods. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks.
 (CVE-2026-1287)

 Solomon Kebede discovered that Django incorrectly handled column alias parsing with dictionary expansion.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-1312)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

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

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8009-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 297803

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8009-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2026

Updated: 2/4/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1312

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-django, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-django, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-django-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13473, CVE-2025-14550, CVE-2026-1207, CVE-2026-1285, CVE-2026-1287, CVE-2026-1312

USN: 8009-1