Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12794 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Djangoproject Django
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- 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.
- Embedding Scripts in Non-Script Elements This attack is a form of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) where malicious scripts are embedded in elements that are not expected to host scripts such as image tags (<img>), comments in XML documents (< !-CDATA->), etc. These tags may not be subject to the same input validation, output validation, and other content filtering and checking routines, so this can create an opportunity for an attacker to tunnel through the application's elements and launch a XSS attack through other elements. As with all remote attacks, it is important to differentiate the ability to launch an attack (such as probing an internal network for unpatched servers) and the ability of the remote attacker to collect and interpret the output of said attack.
- Embedding Scripts within Scripts An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
- Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages An attacker distributes a link (or possibly some other query structure) with a request to a third party web server that is malformed and also contains a block of exploit code in order to have the exploit become live code in the resulting error page. When the third party web server receives the crafted request and notes the error it then creates an error message that echoes the malformed message, including the exploit. Doing this converts the exploit portion of the message into to valid language elements that are executed by the viewing browser. When a victim executes the query provided by the attacker the infected error message error message is returned including the exploit code which then runs in the victim's browser. XSS can result in execution of code as well as data leakage (e.g. session cookies can be sent to the attacker). This type of attack is especially dangerous since the exploit appears to come from the third party web server, who the victim may trust and hence be more vulnerable to deception.
- Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax The attacker uses alternate forms of keywords or commands that result in the same action as the primary form but which may not be caught by filters. For example, many keywords are processed in a case insensitive manner. If the site's web filtering algorithm does not convert all tags into a consistent case before the comparison with forbidden keywords it is possible to bypass filters (e.g., incomplete black lists) by using an alternate case structure. For example, the "script" tag using the alternate forms of "Script" or "ScRiPt" may bypass filters where "script" is the only form tested. Other variants using different syntax representations are also possible as well as using pollution meta-characters or entities that are eventually ignored by the rendering engine. The attack can result in the execution of otherwise prohibited functionality.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-8614A6E905.NASL description fix CVE-2017-12794 (rhbz#1488764) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-09-15 plugin id 103233 published 2017-09-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103233 title Fedora 26 : python-django (2017-8614a6e905) 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 FEDORA-2017-8614a6e905. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(103233); script_version("3.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12794"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2017-8614a6e905"); script_name(english:"Fedora 26 : python-django (2017-8614a6e905)"); 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: "fix CVE-2017-12794 (rhbz#1488764) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. 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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8614a6e905" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected python-django package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-django"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/09/07"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/09/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/09/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 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 = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^26([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 26", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC26", reference:"python-django-1.10.8-1.fc26")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python-django"); }
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3559-1.NASL description It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information. (CVE-2017-12794, CVE-2018-6188). 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 106675 published 2018-02-08 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106675 title Ubuntu 17.10 : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-3559-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-318.NASL description This update for python3-Django to version 1.18.18 fixes multiple issues. Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-7537: Fixed catastrophic backtracking in django.utils.text.Truncator. (bsc#1083305) - CVE-2018-7536: Fixed catastrophic backtracking in urlize and urlizetrunc template filters (bsc#1083304). - CVE-2016-7401: CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics (bsc#1001374). - CVE-2016-2513: User enumeration through timing difference on password hasher work factor upgrade (bsc#968000). - CVE-2016-2512: Fixed malicious redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs containing basic auth (bsc#967999). - CVE-2016-9013: User with hardcoded password created when running tests on Oracle (bsc#1008050). - CVE-2016-9014: DNS rebinding vulnerability when DEBUG=True (bsc#1008047). - CVE-2017-7234: Open redirect vulnerability in django.views.static.serve() (bsc#1031451). - CVE-2017-7233: Open redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied numeric redirect URLs (bsc#1031450). - CVE-2017-12794: Fixed XSS possibility in traceback section of technical 500 debug page (bsc#1056284) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-03-27 plugin id 108641 published 2018-03-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108641 title openSUSE Security Update : python3-Django (openSUSE-2018-318) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_AAAB03BE932D11E792D84B26FC968492.NASL description Django blog : In older versions, 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 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 102987 published 2017-09-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102987 title FreeBSD : Django -- possible XSS in traceback section of technical 500 debug page (aaab03be-932d-11e7-92d8-4b26fc968492) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-317.NASL description This update for python-Django to version 1.18.18 fixes multiple issues. Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-7537: Fixed catastrophic backtracking in django.utils.text.Truncator. (bsc#1083305) - CVE-2018-7536: Fixed catastrophic backtracking in urlize and urlizetrunc template filters (bsc#1083304). - CVE-2016-7401: CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics (bsc#1001374). - CVE-2016-2513: User enumeration through timing difference on password hasher work factor upgrade (bsc#968000). - CVE-2016-2512: Fixed malicious redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs containing basic auth (bsc#967999). - CVE-2016-9013: User with hardcoded password created when running tests on Oracle (bsc#1008050). - CVE-2016-9014: DNS rebinding vulnerability when DEBUG=True (bsc#1008047). - CVE-2017-7234: Open redirect vulnerability in django.views.static.serve() (bsc#1031451). - CVE-2017-7233: Open redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied numeric redirect URLs (bsc#1031450). - CVE-2017-12794: Fixed XSS possibility in traceback section of technical 500 debug page (bsc#1056284) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-03-27 plugin id 108640 published 2018-03-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108640 title openSUSE Security Update : python-Django (openSUSE-2018-317)