SB2016032403 - Red Hat update for python-django 

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SB2016032403 - Red Hat update for python-django

Published: March 24, 2016

Security Bulletin ID SB2016032403
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2512)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The weakness exists in the utils.http.is_safe_url function due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


2) Timing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2513)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists in the password hasher in contrib/auth/hashers.py due to creating a timing difference between a login request for a user with a password encoded in an older number of iterations and login request for a nonexistent user. A remote attacker can enumerate users via a timing attack involving login requests.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References