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Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-qc99-g3wm-hgxr

Django Arbitrary Code Execution

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Also known as CVE-2007-0404PYSEC-2026-630

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

django PyPI

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AffectedFixed in
0.95 to before 1.01.0Advisories →
Also listed as affected (1)

Description

bin/compile-messages.py in Django 0.95 does not quote argument strings before invoking the msgfmt program through the os.system function, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) .po or (2) .mo file.

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