Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-0483 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
The administrative interface (contrib.admin) 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 check if a field represents a relationship between models, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a to_field parameter in a popup action to an admin change form page, as demonstrated by a /admin/auth/user/?pop=1&t=password URI.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's configuration that allows an attacker to either directly access an executable file, for example through shell access; or in a possible worst case allows an attacker to upload a file and then execute it. Web servers, ftp servers, and message oriented middleware systems which have many integration points are particularly vulnerable, because both the programmers and the administrators must be in synch regarding the interfaces and the correct privileges for each interface.
- Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's trust in configuration and resource files, when the executable loads the resource (such as an image file or configuration file) the attacker has modified the file to either execute malicious code directly or manipulate the target process (e.g. application server) to execute based on the malicious configuration parameters. Since systems are increasingly interrelated mashing up resources from local and remote sources the possibility of this attack occurring is high. The attack can be directed at a client system, such as causing buffer overrun through loading seemingly benign image files, as in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 where specially crafted JPEG files could cause a buffer overrun once loaded into the browser. Another example targets clients reading pdf files. In this case the attacker simply appends javascript to the end of a legitimate url for a pdf (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/) http://path/to/pdf/file.pdf#whatever_name_you_want=javascript:your_code_here The client assumes that they are reading a pdf, but the attacker has modified the resource and loaded executable javascript into the client's browser process. The attack can also target server processes. The attacker edits the resource or configuration file, for example a web.xml file used to configure security permissions for a J2EE app server, adding role name "public" grants all users with the public role the ability to use the administration functionality. The server trusts its configuration file to be correct, but when they are manipulated, the attacker gains full control.
- Blue Boxing This type of attack against older telephone switches and trunks has been around for decades. A tone is sent by an adversary to impersonate a supervisor signal which has the effect of rerouting or usurping command of the line. While the US infrastructure proper may not contain widespread vulnerabilities to this type of attack, many companies are connected globally through call centers and business process outsourcing. These international systems may be operated in countries which have not upgraded Telco infrastructure and so are vulnerable to Blue boxing. Blue boxing is a result of failure on the part of the system to enforce strong authorization for administrative functions. While the infrastructure is different than standard current applications like web applications, there are historical lessons to be learned to upgrade the access control for administrative functions.
- Restful Privilege Elevation Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.
- Target Programs with Elevated Privileges This attack targets programs running with elevated privileges. The attacker would try to leverage a bug in the running program and get arbitrary code to execute with elevated privileges. For instance an attacker would look for programs that write to the system directories or registry keys (such as HKLM, which stores a number of critical Windows environment variables). These programs are typically running with elevated privileges and have usually not been designed with security in mind. Such programs are excellent exploit targets because they yield lots of power when they break. The malicious user try to execute its code at the same level as a privileged system call.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-9866.NASL description 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. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-09-11 plugin id 77614 published 2014-09-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77614 title Fedora 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 family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201412-22.NASL description The 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 79975 published 2014-12-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79975 title GLSA-201412-22 : Django: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-9771.NASL description 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. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-09-10 plugin id 77590 published 2014-09-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77590 title Fedora 20 : python-django-1.6.6-1.fc20 (2014-9771) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-15266.NASL description update 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 seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-12-02 plugin id 79645 published 2014-12-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79645 title Fedora 20 : python-django14-1.4.16-1.fc20 (2014-15266) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-65.NASL description This 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 seen 2020-03-17 modified 2015-03-26 plugin id 82210 published 2015-03-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82210 title Debian DLA-65-1 : python-django security update NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3010.NASL description Several 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 seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-08-23 plugin id 77344 published 2014-08-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77344 title Debian DSA-3010-1 : python-django - security update NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-15307.NASL description Update 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 seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-12-02 plugin id 79646 published 2014-12-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79646 title Fedora 19 : python-django14-1.4.16-1.fc19 (2014-15307) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2347-1.NASL description Florian 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 77725 published 2014-09-17 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77725 title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-2347-1) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_3C5579F7294A11E499F600E0814CAB4E.NASL description The 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 77315 published 2014-08-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77315 title FreeBSD : django -- multiple vulnerabilities (3c5579f7-294a-11e4-99f6-00e0814cab4e) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2014-179.NASL description Updated 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 77658 published 2014-09-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77658 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-django (MDVSA-2014:179) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2014-542.NASL description Python 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 seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-09-17 plugin id 77718 published 2014-09-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77718 title openSUSE Security Update : python-django (openSUSE-SU-2014:1132-1) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-9788.NASL description update 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 seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-09-10 plugin id 77591 published 2014-09-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77591 title Fedora 20 : python-django14-1.4.14-1.fc20 (2014-9788)
References
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/2b31342cdf14fc20e07c43d258f1e7334ad664a6
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59782
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61281
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61276