CVE-2016-9014

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Django before 1.8.x before 1.8.16, 1.9.x before 1.9.11, and 1.10.x before 1.10.3, when settings.DEBUG is True, allow remote attackers to conduct DNS rebinding attacks by leveraging failure to validate the HTTP Host header against settings.ALLOWED_HOSTS.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 16.10
Django: 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5 (+24)
Fedoraproject Fedora: 24, 25

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3835
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94068
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037159
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3115-1
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OG5ROMUPS6C7BXELD3TAUUH7OBYV56WQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QXDKJYHN74BWY3P7AR2UZDVJREQMRE6S/
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/nov/01/security-releases/
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3835
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94068
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037159
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3115-1
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OG5ROMUPS6C7BXELD3TAUUH7OBYV56WQ/

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