CVE-2015-5144
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…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIDjangoGHSA-q5qw-4364-5hhm (opens in a new tab)
References
10
- FEDORA-2015-1dd5bc998f (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-201510-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1802 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1813 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-3305 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 75665 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-2671-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 1032820 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0005 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-q5qw-4364-5hhm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-5144)Record last updated .