CVE-2016-9014

Publication date 1 November 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Django before 1.8.x before 1.8.16, 1.9.x before 1.9.11, and 1.10.x before 1.10.3, when settings.DEBUG is True, allow remote attackers to conduct DNS rebinding attacks by leveraging failure to validate the HTTP Host header against settings.ALLOWED_HOSTS.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
python-django	16.10 yakkety	Fixed in 1.8.7-1ubuntu8.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed in 1.8.7-1ubuntu5.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed in 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.16
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed in 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.22

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.1 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3115-1
Django vulnerabilities
1 November 2016