CVE-2013-4315 Django Directory Traversal via ssi template tag

What is CVE-2013-4315?

CVE-2013-4315 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Djangoproject Django, published on 16 Sep 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.7, 1.5.x before 1.5.3, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a file path in the ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS setting followed by a .. (dot dot) in a ssi template tag.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4315?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including django and Django. It affects 1 product.

Products include Djangoproject Django.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4315?

Upgrade django to a fixed version for your release line: 1.4.7 or 1.5.3.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2013-4315 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4315 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4315, DSA-2755-1, GHSA-vjjp-9r83-22rc, MGASA-2013-0283, PYSEC-2013-20.