Moderate: python-django security update

Synopsis

Moderate: python-django security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

Security Fix(es):

• A redirect flaw, where the is_safe_url() function did not correctly sanitize numeric-URL user input, was found in python-django. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to perform XSS attacks against the OpenStack dashboard. (CVE-2017-7233)
  

Red Hat would like to thank the Django project for reporting this issue.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 11 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1437234 - CVE-2017-7233 python-django: Open redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied numeric redirect URLs

CVEs

• CVE-2017-7233

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate