GHSA-vjjp-9r83-22rc

Django Directory Traversal via ssi template tag

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2013-4315

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	Django	>= 1.4, < 1.4.7	1.4.7
PyPI	Django	>= 1.5, < 1.5.3	1.5.3

Details

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

Directory traversal vulnerability in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.7, 1.5.x before 1.5.3, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a file path in the ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS setting followed by a `..` (dot dot) in a ssi template tag.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4315 advisory
https://github.com/django/django/commit/87d2750b39f6f2d54b7047225521a44dcd37e896 web
https://github.com/django/django/commit/988b61c550d798f9a66d17ee0511fb7a9a7f33ca web
https://github.com/django/django package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2013-20.yaml web
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/10/security-releases-issued web
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html web
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1521.html web
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2755 web