CVE-2016-9014 Django DNS Rebinding Vulnerability

What is CVE-2016-9014?

CVE-2016-9014 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Dec 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Django before 1.8.x before 1.8.16, 1.9.x before 1.9.11, and 1.10.x before 1.10.3, when settings.DEBUG is True, allow remote attackers to conduct DNS rebinding attacks by leveraging failure to validate the HTTP Host header against settings.ALLOWED_HOSTS.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9014?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including django and Django. It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Djangoproject Django, Fedoraproject Fedora.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9014?

Upgrade django to a fixed version for your release line: 1.8.16, 1.9.11 or 1.10.3.

Is CVE-2016-9014 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-9014, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9014, DLA-706-1, GHSA-3f2c-jm6v-cr35, PYSEC-2016-18, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9014.