CVE-2015-5144 Django Vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting Attack

What is CVE-2015-5144?

CVE-2015-5144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 14 Jul 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5144?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including django and Django. It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Djangoproject Django, Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5144?

Upgrade django to a fixed version for your release line: 1.4.21, 1.7.9 or 1.8.3.

Is CVE-2015-5144 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5144 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5144, GHSA-q5qw-4364-5hhm, PYSEC-2015-10, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5144.