CVE-2009-2659 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-2659

The Admin media handler in core/servers/basehttp.py in Django 1.0 and...

Vulnerability Description

The Admin media handler in core/servers/basehttp.py in Django 1.0 and 0.96 does not properly map URL requests to expected "static media files," which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

django project

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Affected Software

django
Vulnerable Versions:
0.96, 1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 4th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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