HIGH 7.5 PyPI
Django Admin Media Handler Vulnerable to Directory Traversal
GHSA-9xg7-gg9m-rmq9 · CVE-2009-2659 · PYSEC-2009-3
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Description
The Admin media handler in core/servers/basehttp.py in Django 1.0 and 0.96 does not properly map URL requests to expected "static media files," which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2659
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/da85d76fd6ca846f3b0ff414e042ddb5e62e2e69
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/df7f917b7f51ba969faa49d000ffc79572c5dcb4
- PACKAGE https://github.com/django/django
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2009-3.yaml
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20111211001428/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35859
- WEB https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00055.html
- WEB https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00069.html
- WEB http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539134
- WEB http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/11353
- WEB http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/jul/28/security
- WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/29/2
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