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CVE-2020-9402

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Django 1.11 before 1.11.29, 2.2 before 2.2.11, and 3.0 before 3.0.4 allows SQL Injection if untrusted data is used as a tolerance parameter in GIS functions and aggregates on Oracle. By passing a suitably crafted tolerance to GIS functions and aggregates on Oracle, it was possible to break escaping and inject malicious SQL.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• Django: from 1.11 before 1.11.29; from 2.2 before 2.2.11; from 3.0 before 3.0.4 — fixed in 1.11.29, 2.2.11, 3.0.4
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Django 1.11.29, 2.2.11, 3.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/fLUh_pOaKrY
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00035.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4A2AP4T7RKPBCLTI2NNQG3T6MINDUUMZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UZMN2NKAGTFE3YKMNM2JVJG7R2W7LLHY/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200327-0004/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4296-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4705
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2020/mar/04/security-releases/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/fLUh_pOaKrY

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