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CVE-2013-4315 — django

HIGHFix: django/django@87d2750

CVE-2013-4315 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.6) Path Traversal vulnerability in django. A fix is available for django — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Django Directory Traversal via ssi template tag

Also known asGHSA-vjjp-9r83-22rcPYSEC-2013-20
Published
Updated
Affected
2 pkgs
Patched
2 / 2
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 30, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
3.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs88th percentile — riskier than 88% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.32%1.50%2.69%3.88%1.0%3.2%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

2 pkgs affected
🐍django🐍django

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects PyPI packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.7, 1.5.x before 1.5.3, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a file path in the ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS setting followed by a .. (dot dot) in a ssi template tag.

Affected Packages

2 total 2 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐍PyPIdjango≥ 1.4&&< 1.4.71.4.7pip install --upgrade 'django==1.4.7'
🐍PyPIdjango≥ 1.5&&< 1.5.31.5.3pip install --upgrade 'django==1.5.3'

Affected Products

1 product · 12 configurations
Application
djangodjangoproject
9 versions
1.41.4.11.4.21.4.41.4.51.4.61.51.5.11.6

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for django, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update django to 1.4.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2013-4315 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatLow
ProductFixed inAdvisory
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Django14-0:1.4.8-1.el6ostRHSA-2013:1521
Ubuntu
USN-1967-1Ubuntu

Frequently Asked Questions

Directory traversal vulnerability in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.7, 1.5.x before 1.5.3, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a file path in the ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS setting followed by a .. (dot dot) in a ssi template tag.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2013-4315: django Path Traversal — Fixed in 1.4.7