CVE-2015-5144
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.5%Django Vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting Attack
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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 packages (3)
- Debian/python-djangofrom 0, < 1.7.9-1
- PyPI/djangofrom 0, < 1.4.21
- PyPI/djangofrom 0, < 1.4.21, >= 1.5, < 1.7.9, >= 1.8, < 1.8.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (22)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5144
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5144
- ADVISORYhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/blob/4555a823fd57e261e1b19c778429473256c8ea08/docs/releases/1.4.21.txt#L30-L54
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/1ba1cdce7d58e6740fe51955d945b56ae51d072a
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/574dd5e0b0fbb877ae5827b1603d298edc9bb2a0
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/8f9a4d3a2bc42f14bb437defd30c7315adbff22c
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/ae49b4d994656bc037513dcd064cb9ce5bb85649
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-10.yaml
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20150924150801/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200228050526/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75665
- WEBhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305
- WEBhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75665
- WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820
- WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1