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CVE-2015-5144

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-07-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Django: through 1.4.20; 1.5, 1.5-alpha, 1.5-beta, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3 (+44)
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75665
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html

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