THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-12794
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2017-12794

Django vulnerability

CVSS
6.1
EPSS
23.6%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with "DEBUG = True" (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.
Affected vendor
Djangoproject
Affected product
Django
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2017-09-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 23.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-12794

  • Confirm whether Djangoproject Django is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-12794.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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