CVE-2015-5144

Advisory

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.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5144
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75665
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820