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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2019.4536
Django security releases issued: 2.2.8 and 2.1.15
3 December 2019
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Django
Publisher: Django
Operating System: Windows
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2019-19118
Original Bulletin:
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/02/security-releases/
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Django security releases issued: 2.2.8 and 2.1.15
Posted by Carlton Gibson on December 2, 2019
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing
Django 2.2.8 and Django 2.1.15. These release addresses the security issue
detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as
possible.
CVE-2019-19118: Privilege escalation in the Django admin.
Since Django 2.1, a Django model admin displaying a parent model with related
model inlines, where the user has view-only permissions to a parent model but
edit permissions to the inline model, would display a read-only view of the
parent model but editable forms for the inline.
Submitting these forms would not allow direct edits to the parent model, but
would trigger the parent model's save() method, and cause pre and post-save
signal handlers to be invoked. This is a privilege escalation as a user who
lacks permission to edit a model should not be able to trigger its save-related
signals.
To resolve this issue, the permission handling code of the Django admin
interface has been changed. Now, if a user has only the "view" permission for a
parent model, the entire displayed form will not be editable, even if the user
has permission to edit models included in inlines.
This is a backwards-incompatible change, and the Django security team is aware
that some users of Django were depending on the ability to allow editing of
inlines in the admin form of an otherwise view-only parent model.
Given the complexity of the Django admin, and in-particular the permissions
related checks, it is the view of the Django security team that this change was
necessary: that it is not currently feasible to maintain the existing behavior
whilst escaping the potential privilege escalation in a way that would avoid a
recurrence of similar issues in the future, and that would be compatible with
Django's safe by default philosophy.
For the time being, developers whose applications are affected by this change
should replace the use of inlines in read-only parents with custom forms and
views that explicitly implement the desired functionality. In the longer term,
adding a documented, supported, and properly-tested mechanism for
partially-editable multi-model forms to the admin interface may occur in Django
itself.
Thank you to Shen Ying for reporting this issue.
Affected supported versions
* Django master branch
* Django 3.0 (which will be released in a separate blog post later today)
* Django 2.2
* Django 2.1
Resolution
Patches to resolve the issue have been applied to Django's master branch and
the 3.0, 2.2, and 2.1 release branches. The patches may be obtained from the
following changesets:
* On the master branch
* On the 3.0 release branch
* On the 2.2 release branch
* On the 2.1 release branch
The following releases have been issued:
* Django 2.2.8 (download Django 2.2.8 | 2.2.8 checksums)
* Django 2.1.15 (download Django 2.1.15 | 2.1.15 checksums)
The PGP key ID used for these releases is Carlton Gibson: E17DF5C82B4F9D00.
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