CVE-2017-12794: Django vulnerable to XSS on 500 pages
(updated )
In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn’t affect most production sites since you shouldn’t run with DEBUG = True (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9
- github.com/django/django
- github.com/django/django/commit/58e08e80e362db79eb0fd775dc81faad90dca47a
- github.com/django/django/commit/e35a0c56086924f331e9422daa266e907a4784cc
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2017-44.yaml
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12794
- usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1
- web.archive.org/web/20170927072701/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264
- web.archive.org/web/20200227150819/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643
- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases
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