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CVE-2017-12794 (GCVE-0-2017-12794)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-07 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:51
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2017-09-05 00:00
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