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high 8.6

CVE-2013-4315 json

Django Directory Traversal via ssi template tag

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-vjjp-9r83-22rc , PYSEC-2013-20 , EUVD-2013-0008

cvss
8.6
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.7, 1.5.x before 1.5.3, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a file path in the ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS setting followed by a .. (dot dot) in a ssi template tag.

Patch / fix

  • pypi django 1.4.7, 1.5.3
  • python-django Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4315

  • Django14 openstack 3 1.4.8-1.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1521

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4315 updated cvss 2.1

python-django: directory traversal with "ssi" template tag

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 Django14
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager Django
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 Django14 1.4.8-1.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1521

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi django
>=1.4, <1.4.7
>=1.5, <1.5.3
1.4.7
1.5.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
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References

Sources

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