Cross-site scripting in Django - CVE-2016-9014

Vulnerability identifier: #VU1131

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9014

CWE-ID: CWE-79

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by incorrect filtration of input data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim’s browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Django
Arch Linux
Fedora
Ubuntu
py-django (Alpine package)
python-django

Update to 1.8.16, 1.9.11, 1.10.3.

py-django (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.16-r0
python-django - addressed in versions 1.6.11.6-1.el7, 1.9.11-1.fc24, 1.9.11-1.fc25

• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/nov/01/security-releases/

• Ubuntu update for Django
• Arch Linux update for python-django
• Arch Linux update for python2-django
• Arch Linux update for python-django
• Arch Linux update for python2-django
• Cross-site scripting in py-django (Alpine package)
• Fedora 25 update for python-django
• Fedora 24 update for python-django
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for python-django