CVE-2014-0472 Code Injection in Django

What is CVE-2014-0472?

CVE-2014-0472 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The django.core.urlresolvers.reverse function in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 allows remote attackers to import and execute arbitrary Python modules by leveraging a view that constructs URLs using user input and a "dotted Python path."

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0472?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including django and Django. It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Djangoproject Django.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0472?

Upgrade django to a fixed version for your release line: 1.4.11, 1.5.6 or 1.6.3.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-0472 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0472 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0472, GHSA-rvq6-mrpv-m6rm, PYSEC-2014-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0472, USN-2169-2.