Cross-site scripting in Django - CVE-2017-12794
Published: September 6, 2017 / Updated: September 6, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU8115
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12794
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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.
Affected software
Django
py-django (Alpine package)
python-django
Ubuntu
Fedora
py-django (Alpine package)
python-django
Ubuntu
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2017-12794
The vulnerability is addressed in the following versions: 1.10.8 and 1.11.5.
py-django (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.11.5-r0, 1.11.11-r0
python-django - update to 1.10.8-1.fc26
python-django - update to 1.10.8-1.fc26