CVE-2015-2317

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0
Django: through 1.4.19; 1.5, 1.5-alpha, 1.5-beta, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3 (+38)
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22
Opensuse: 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

References

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/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160263.html

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