PT-2012-5457

CVE-2012-4520

Published

2012-11-18

Updated

2022-05-17

Description by

CVSS 4.0

8.7

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions 1.3.x through 1.3.3 Django versions 1.4.x through 1.4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to generate and display arbitrary URLs via crafted username and password Host header values in the django.http.HttpRequest.get host function.

Recommendations For Django versions 1.3.x through 1.3.3, update to version 1.3.4 or later. For Django versions 1.4.x through 1.4.1, update to version 1.4.2 or later.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

James Kettle

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Related identifiers

CVE-2012-4520

GHSA-2655-Q453-22F9