Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-0480 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE

Summary

The core.urlresolvers.reverse function in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3 does not properly validate URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct phishing attacks via a // (slash slash) in a URL, which triggers a scheme-relative URL to be generated.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Opensuse
2
Application
Djangoproject
78

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9866.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2014-0480, CVE-2014-0481, CVE-2014-0482, CVE-2014-0483 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-11
    plugin id77614
    published2014-09-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77614
    titleFedora 20 : python-django15-1.5.9-1.fc20 (2014-9866)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2014-9866.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(77614);
      script_version("1.5");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0480", "CVE-2014-0481", "CVE-2014-0482", "CVE-2014-0483");
      script_bugtraq_id(69423, 69425, 69429, 69430);
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-9866");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : python-django15-1.5.9-1.fc20 (2014-9866)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Security fix for CVE-2014-0480, CVE-2014-0481, CVE-2014-0482,
    CVE-2014-0483
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129950"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129952"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129954"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129959"
      );
      # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/137554.html
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7f330a50"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected python-django15 package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-django15");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/08/28");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/09/11");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! ereg(pattern:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC20", reference:"python-django15-1.5.9-1.fc20")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python-django15");
    }
    
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201412-22.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-22 (Django: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Django. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker may be able to create a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, or hijack web sessions. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id79975
    published2014-12-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79975
    titleGLSA-201412-22 : Django: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9771.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2014-0480, CVE-2014-0481, CVE-2014-0482, CVE-2014-0483 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-10
    plugin id77590
    published2014-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77590
    titleFedora 20 : python-django-1.6.6-1.fc20 (2014-9771)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9791.NASL
    descriptionupdate to 1.5.9 fixing CVE-2014-3473 CVE-2014-3474 CVE-2014-3475 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-10
    plugin id77592
    published2014-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77592
    titleFedora 19 : python-django-1.5.9-1.fc19 (2014-9791)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-15266.NASL
    descriptionupdate to latest stable release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-12-02
    plugin id79645
    published2014-12-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79645
    titleFedora 20 : python-django14-1.4.16-1.fc20 (2014-15266)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-65.NASL
    descriptionThis update address an issue with reverse() generating external URLs; a denial of service involving file uploads; a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware; and a data leak in the administrative interface. http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html CVE-2014-0480 Django includes the helper function django.core.urlresolvers.reverse, typically used to generate a URL from a reference to a view function or URL pattern name. However, when presented with input beginning with two forward-slash characters (//), reverse() could generate scheme-relative URLs to other hosts, allowing an attacker who is aware of unsafe use of reverse() (i.e., in a situation where an end user can control the target of a redirect, to take a common example) to generate links to sites of their choice, enabling phishing and other attacks. To remedy this, URL reversing now ensures that no URL starts with two slashes (//), replacing the second slash with its URL encoded counterpart (%2F). This approach ensures that semantics stay the same, while making the URL relative to the domain and not to the scheme. CVE-2014-0481 In the default configuration, when Django
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2015-03-26
    plugin id82210
    published2015-03-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82210
    titleDebian DLA-65-1 : python-django security update
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3010.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities were discovered in Django, a high-level Python web development framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2014-0480 Florian Apolloner discovered that in certain situations, URL reversing could generate scheme-relative URLs which could unexpectedly redirect a user to a different host, leading to phishing attacks. - CVE-2014-0481 David Wilson reported a file upload denial of service vulnerability. Django
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-08-23
    plugin id77344
    published2014-08-23
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77344
    titleDebian DSA-3010-1 : python-django - security update
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-15307.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to latest stable release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-12-02
    plugin id79646
    published2014-12-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79646
    titleFedora 19 : python-django14-1.4.16-1.fc19 (2014-15307)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-2347-1.NASL
    descriptionFlorian Apolloner discovered that Django incorrectly validated URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to conduct phishing attacks. (CVE-2014-0480) David Wilson discovered that Django incorrectly handled file name generation. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Django to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0481) David Greisen discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain headers in contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to hijack web sessions. (CVE-2014-0482) Collin Anderson discovered that Django incorrectly checked if a field represented a relationship between models in the administrative interface. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2014-0483). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id77725
    published2014-09-17
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77725
    titleUbuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-2347-1)
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_3C5579F7294A11E499F600E0814CAB4E.NASL
    descriptionThe Django project reports : These releases address an issue with reverse() generating external URLs; a denial of service involving file uploads; a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware; and a data leak in the administrative interface. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id77315
    published2014-08-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77315
    titleFreeBSD : django -- multiple vulnerabilities (3c5579f7-294a-11e4-99f6-00e0814cab4e)
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2014-179.NASL
    descriptionUpdated python-django packages fix security vulnerabilities : These releases address an issue with reverse() generating external URLs (CVE-2014-0480); a denial of service involving file uploads (CVE-2014-0481); a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware (CVE-2014-0482); and a data leak in the administrative interface (CVE-2014-0483).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id77658
    published2014-09-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77658
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-django (MDVSA-2014:179)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2014-542.NASL
    descriptionPython Django was updated to fix security issues and bugs. Update to version 1.4.15 on openSUSE 12.3 : + Prevented reverse() from generating URLs pointing to other hosts to prevent phishing attacks (bnc#893087, CVE-2014-0480) + Removed O(n) algorithm when uploading duplicate file names to fix file upload denial of service (bnc#893088, CVE-2014-0481) + Modified RemoteUserMiddleware to logout on REMOTE_USE change to prevent session hijacking (bnc#893089, CVE-2014-0482) + Prevented data leakage in contrib.admin via query string manipulation (bnc#893090, CVE-2014-0483) + Fixed: Caches may incorrectly be allowed to store and serve private data (bnc#877993, CVE-2014-1418) + Fixed: Malformed redirect URLs from user input not correctly validated (bnc#878641, CVE-2014-3730) + Fixed queries that may return unexpected results on MySQL due to typecasting (bnc#874956, CVE-2014-0474) + Prevented leaking the CSRF token through caching (bnc#874955, CVE-2014-0473) + Fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in URL reversing (bnc#874950, CVE-2014-0472) Update to version 1.5.10 on openSUSE 13.1 : + Prevented reverse() from generating URLs pointing to other hosts to prevent phishing attacks (bnc#893087, CVE-2014-0480) + Removed O(n) algorithm when uploading duplicate file names to fix file upload denial of service (bnc#893088, CVE-2014-0481) + Modified RemoteUserMiddleware to logout on REMOTE_USE change to prevent session hijacking (bnc#893089, CVE-2014-0482) + Prevented data leakage in contrib.admin via query string manipulation (bnc#893090, CVE-2014-0483) - Update to version 1.5.8 : + Fixed: Caches may incorrectly be allowed to store and serve private data (bnc#877993, CVE-2014-1418) + Fixed: Malformed redirect URLs from user input not correctly validated (bnc#878641, CVE-2014-3730) + Fixed queries that may return unexpected results on MySQL due to typecasting (bnc#874956, CVE-2014-0474) + Prevented leaking the CSRF token through caching (bnc#874955, CVE-2014-0473) + Fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in URL reversing (bnc#874950, CVE-2014-0472)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-09-17
    plugin id77718
    published2014-09-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77718
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : python-django (openSUSE-SU-2014:1132-1)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9788.NASL
    descriptionupdate to 1.4.14 fixing CVE-2014-0480 CVE-2014-0481 CVE-2014-0482, CVE-2014-0483 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-10
    plugin id77591
    published2014-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77591
    titleFedora 20 : python-django14-1.4.14-1.fc20 (2014-9788)