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Django 1.4.6 release notes
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*August 13, 2013*
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Django 1.4.6 fixes one security issue present in previous Django releases in
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the 1.4 series, as well as one other bug.
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This is the sixth bugfix/security release in the Django 1.4 series.
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Mitigated possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs
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Django relies on user input in some cases (e.g.
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:func:`django.contrib.auth.views.login`, :mod:`django.contrib.comments`, and
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:doc:`i18n </topics/i18n/index>`) to redirect the user to an "on success" URL.
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The security checks for these redirects (namely
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``django.util.http.is_safe_url()``) didn't check if the scheme is ``http(s)``
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and as such allowed ``javascript:...`` URLs to be entered. If a developer
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relied on ``is_safe_url()`` to provide safe redirect targets and put such a
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2013-11-30 13:37:15 +00:00
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URL into a link, they could suffer from a XSS attack. This bug doesn't affect
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Django currently, since we only put this URL into the ``Location`` response
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header and browsers seem to ignore JavaScript there.
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Bugfixes
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2013-09-09 08:59:47 +00:00
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* Fixed an obscure bug with the :func:`~django.test.override_settings`
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decorator. If you hit an ``AttributeError: 'Settings' object has no attribute
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'_original_allowed_hosts'`` exception, it's probably fixed (#20636).
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