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CVE-2016-2512 (GCVE-0-2016-2512)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-08 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI
Summary
The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2016-03-01 00:00
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