RHSA-2016:1594

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2016-08-10 23:44 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:57
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: python-django security update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle. Security Fix(es): * A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in Django. An attacker could exploit the unsafe usage of JavaScript's Element.innerHTML to forge content in the admin's add/change related popup. Element.textContent is now used to prevent XSS data execution. (CVE-2016-6186) Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting this issue.
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CVE-2016-6186

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in Django. An attacker could exploit the unsafe usage of JavaScript's Element.innerHTML to forge content in the admin's add/change related pop-up. Element.textContent is now used to prevent XSS data execution.

6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Vendor Fix For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1594
References
Acknowledgments
the upstream Django project
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