Input validation error in Django - CVE-2015-5144

 

Input validation error in Django - CVE-2015-5144

Published: July 14, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32402
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5144
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Django Software Foundation
Affected software:
Django

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2015-5144

Install update from vendor's website.

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