CVE-2014-0480 Information

Description

The core.urlresolvers.reverse function in Django before 1.4.14 1.5.x before 1.5.9 1.6.x before 1.6.6 and 1.7 before release candidate 3 does not properly validate URLs which allows remote attackers to conduct phishing attacks via a // (slash slash) in a URL which triggers a scheme-relative URL to be generated.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59782 http://secunia.com/advisories/61276 http://secunia.com/advisories/61281 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69425 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security/ The core.urlresolvers.reverse function in Django before 1.4.14 1.5.x before 1.5.9 1.6.x before 1.6.6 and 1.7 before release candidate 3 does not properly validate URLs which allows remote attackers to conduct phishing attacks via a // (slash slash) in a URL which triggers a scheme-relative URL to be generated.