CVE-2017-12794
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 9.7%Django vulnerable to XSS on 500 pages
Published: 1/4/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/py3-djangofrom 0, < 1.11.5-r0
- Alpine/py-djangofrom 0, < 1.11.5-r0
- Debian/python-djangofrom 0, < 1:1.11.5-1
- PyPI/django>= 1.10a1, < 1.10.8
- PyPI/django>= 1.10, < 1.10.8, >= 1.11, < 1.11.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (16)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12794
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-12794
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12794
- ADVISORYhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases/
- PATCHhttps://github.com/django/django
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/58e08e80e362db79eb0fd775dc81faad90dca47a
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/e35a0c56086924f331e9422daa266e907a4784cc
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2017-44.yaml
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20170927072701/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200227150819/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643
- WEBhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643
- WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264