CVE-2015-5144
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Improper input validation
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75665
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1Advisory