CVE-2017-12794

Publication date 7 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
python-django	17.10 artful	Fixed 1:1.11.4-1ubuntu1.1
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

ratliff

upstream says that Djanjo 1.8 is unaffected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3559-1
Django vulnerabilities
7 February 2018