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Fencer Intel
high 7.4

CVE-2016-2512 json

Django XSS Vulnerability

published 2016-04-08 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7 , PYSEC-2016-15 , EUVD-2016-0004

cvss
7.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com.

Patch / fix

  • pypi django 1.8.10, 1.9.3
  • python-django Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.9.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2512

  • python-django Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.12

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2512

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • python-django openstack-optools 7, openstack 6, openstack 5 1.6.11-5.el7ost
  • python-django-bash-completion openstack-optools 7, openstack 6, openstack 5 1.6.11-5.el7ost
  • python-django openstack 7 1.8.11-1.el7ost
  • python-django-bash-completion openstack 7 1.8.11-1.el7ost
  • python-django openstack 5 1.6.11-5.el6ost
  • python-django-bash-completion openstack 5 1.6.11-5.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0506RHSA-2016:0503RHSA-2016:0504RHSA-2016:0505RHSA-2016:0502

  • python-Django Enterprise Storage 5 1.6.11-6.5.1
  • python-Django Enterprise Storage 4 1.6.11-5.5.1
  • python-Django OpenStack Cloud 6 1.8.19-3.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1830-1SUSE-SU-2018:1828-1SUSE-SU-2018:1102-1

  • python-Django openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.10.4-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10361-1

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-2016-2512 updated cvss 5.8

python-django: Malicious redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs containing basic auth

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 Django Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 Django Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager Django
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 python-django 1.6.11-5.el6ost, python-django-bash-completion 1.6.11-5.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0502
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 python-django 1.6.11-5.el7ost, python-django-bash-completion 1.6.11-5.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0506
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 python-django 1.6.11-5.el7ost, python-django-bash-completion 1.6.11-5.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0505
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 python-django 1.8.11-1.el7ost, python-django-bash-completion 1.8.11-1.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0504
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7 python-django 1.6.11-5.el7ost, python-django-bash-completion 1.6.11-5.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0503
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) python-django, python-django-bash-completion Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools python-django, python-django-bash-completion
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

4.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi django
<1.8.10
>=1.9a1, <1.9.3
>=1.9, <1.9.3
1.8.10
1.9.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.