GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9

Django vulnerable to XSS on 500 pages

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2017-12794

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	Django	>= 1.10a1, < 1.10.8	1.10.8
PyPI	Django	>= 1.11a1, < 1.11.5	1.11.5

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with `DEBUG = True` (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12794 advisory
https://github.com/django/django/commit/58e08e80e362db79eb0fd775dc81faad90dca47a web
https://github.com/django/django/commit/e35a0c56086924f331e9422daa266e907a4784cc web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9 advisory
https://github.com/django/django package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2017-44.yaml web
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20170927072701/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227150819/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643 web
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases web