CVE-2017-12794

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.

How to fix CVE-2017-12794

To remediate CVE-2017-12794, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.11.5-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.11.5-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 1:1.11.5-1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.10.8 or later
• —upgrade to 1.10.8 or later

Is CVE-2017-12794 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 9.7%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 1.11.5-r0
• from 0, < 1.11.5-r0
• from 0, < 1:1.11.5-1
• >= 1.10a1, < 1.10.8
• >= 1.10, < 1.10.8, >= 1.11, < 1.11.5

CVSS scores

References (16)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12794
• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-12794
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12794
• ADVISORY