CVE-2010-4534

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The administrative interface in django.contrib.admin in Django before 1.1.3, 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.3.x before 1.3 beta 1 does not properly restrict use of the query string to perform certain object filtering, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a series of requests containing regular expressions, as demonstrated by a created_by__password__regex parameter.

Affected products

Django: through 1.1.2; 0.91, 0.95, 0.95.1, 0.96, 1.0, 1.0.1 (+9)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-12/0580.html
http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/15031
http://evilpacket.net/2010/dec/22/information-leakage-django-administrative-interfac/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053041.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053072.html
http://ngenuity-is.com/advisories/2010/dec/22/information-leakage-in-django-administrative-inter/
http://secunia.com/advisories/42715
http://secunia.com/advisories/42827
http://secunia.com/advisories/42913
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/dec/22/security/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/23/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/5

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