Medium severity · published Dec 2, 2019
CVE-2019-19118
Django 2.1 before 2.1.15 and 2.2 before 2.2.8 allows unintended model editing
6.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Django 2.1 before 2.1.15 and 2.2 before 2.2.8 allows unintended model editing. A Django model admin displaying inline related models, where the user has view-only permissions to a parent model but edit permissions to the inline model, would be presented with an editing UI, allowing POST requests, for updating the inline model. Directly editing the view-only parent model was not possible, but the parent model's save() method was called, triggering potential side effects, and causing pre and post-save signal handlers to be invoked. (To resolve this, the Django admin is adjusted to require edit permissions on the parent model in order for inline models to be editable.)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DJ
Django · Djangoproject
2.1 before 2.1.15; 2.2 before 2.2.8 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19118
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19118
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/02/1
Patch
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
groups.google.com
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/GjGqDvtNmWQ
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6R4HD22PVEVQ45H2JA2NXH443AYJOPL5/
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191217-0003/
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