CVE-2015-0220 Information

Description

The django.util.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.18 1.6.x before 1.6.10 and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 does not properly handle leading whitespaces which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL related to redirect URLs as demonstrated by a \\njavascript:\ URL.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0026.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62285 http://secunia.com/advisories/62309 http://secunia.com/advisories/62718 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2469-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:036 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/13/security/ The django.util.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.18 1.6.x before 1.6.10 and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 does not properly handle leading whitespaces which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL related to redirect URLs as demonstrated by a \\njavascript:
URL.