CVE-2009-2659

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Admin media handler in core/servers/basehttp.py in Django 1.0 and 0.96 does not properly map URL requests to expected "static media files," which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.

Affected products

Django Project Django: 0.96, 1.0

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539134
http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/11353
http://secunia.com/advisories/36137
http://secunia.com/advisories/36153
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/jul/28/security/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/29/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35859
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00055.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00069.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539134
http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/11353
http://secunia.com/advisories/36137

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