PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-03-01 17:00:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2016-2512
CRD: 2016-03-01 17:00:00 UTC
PublicDate: 2016-04-08 15:59:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2512
 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases/
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2915-1
Description:
 The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x
 before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web
 sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting
 (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by
 http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
 mdeslaur> patch introduced a regression:
 mdeslaur> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/+bug/1553251
 mdeslaur> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26308
 mdeslaur> https://github.com/django/django/commit/ada7a4aefb9bec4c34667b511022be6057102f98
 mdeslaur> https://github.com/django/django/commit/552f03869ea7f3072b3fa19ffb6cb2d957fd8447
Bugs: 
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Mark Striemer
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N [7.4 HIGH]

Patches_python-django:
upstream_python-django: released (1.8.10,1.9.3)
precise_python-django: released (1.3.1-4ubuntu1.20)
trusty_python-django: released (1.6.1-2ubuntu0.12)
trusty/esm_python-django: released (1.6.1-2ubuntu0.12)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_python-django: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_python-django: DNE
wily_python-django: released (1.7.9-1ubuntu5.2)
devel_python-django: released (1.8.7-1ubuntu2)