Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name MDVSA-2015:195 First vendor Publication 2015-04-07
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2015-04-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in python-django:

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.20, 1.5.x, 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1 does not properly validate URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a control character in a URL, as demonstrated by a \x08javascript: URL (CVE-2015-2317).

The updated packages provides a solution for this security issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:195

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 102
Os 4
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-09-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-598.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-272.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-19 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-9604.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-5766.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-07 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-195.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-02 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-281.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-109.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_62287f51d43d11e4879c00e0814cab4e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3204.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2539-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-04-08 13:29:19
  • Multiple Updates
2015-04-07 09:25:40
  • First insertion