CVE-2018-14574

Publication date 1 August 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.8 has an Open Redirect.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-django 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

xenial and earlier don't look vulnerable as they will always convert relative redirects to an absolute URI. This was changed by the following commit in later releases: https://github.com/django/django/commit/a0c2eb46dd5a782c11c44f13c8efad2778be1641

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

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