CVE-2020-9402 SQL injection in Django

What is CVE-2020-9402?

CVE-2020-9402 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 Mar 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Django 1.11 before 1.11.29, 2.2 before 2.2.11, and 3.0 before 3.0.4 allows SQL Injection if untrusted data is used as a tolerance parameter in GIS functions and aggregates on Oracle. By passing a suitably crafted tolerance to GIS functions and aggregates on Oracle, it was possible to break escaping and inject malicious SQL.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-9402?

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

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Djangoproject Django, Fedoraproject Fedora, Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage.

How do I fix CVE-2020-9402?

Upgrade django to a fixed version for your release line: 1.11.29, 2.2.11 or 3.0.4.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2020-9402 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-9402 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
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2020-9402, BIT-django-2020-9402, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9402, DLA-3024-1, GHSA-3gh2-xw74-jmcw, PYSEC-2020-36 and 2 more.