CVE-2015-5144
mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.032 · 88 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.7–7.5
weaknesses
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affected products (55)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-q5qw-4364-5hhmDjango Vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting Attack2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.
- PYSEC-2015-102015-07-14vendor · osvUS
Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a newline character in an (1) email message to the EmailValidator, a (2) URL to the URLValidator, or unspecified vectors to the (3) validate_ipv4_address or (4) validate_slug validator.
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references (24)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75665cnnvd
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1cnnvd
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/cnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305enisa_euvd
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