CVE-2015-2317 Information

Description

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.20 1.5.x 1.6.x before 1.6.11 1.7.x before 1.7.7 and 1.8.x before 1.8c1 does not properly validate URLs which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a control character in a URL as demonstrated by a \x08javascript: URL.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160263.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2539-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3204 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:195 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73319 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/ The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.20 1.5.x 1.6.x before 1.6.11 1.7.x before 1.7.7 and 1.8.x before 1.8c1 does not properly validate URLs which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a control character in a URL as demonstrated by a \x08javascript: URL.