CVE-2015-2241

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-03-09
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
1200922: CVE-2015-2241 Django: XSS attack via properties in ModelAdmin.readonly_fields

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the contents function in admin/helpers.py in Django before 1.7.6 and 1.8 before 1.8b2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a model attribute in ModelAdmin.readonly_fields, as demonstrated by a @property.

Find out more about CVE-2015-2241 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. The 1.7 and 1.8 versions of Django are not shipped in any Red Hat product as of March 2015.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 Django Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 python-django Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) python-django Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 Django14 Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting this issue.

External References

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