CVE-2014-0483 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-264 vulnerability in django. 1 public exploit or proof-of-concept reference is indexed, so weaponization risk is real. A fix is available for django — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Django data leakage via querystring manipulation in admin
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
The administrative interface (contrib.admin) in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3 does not check if a field represents a relationship between models, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a to_field parameter in a popup action to an admin change form page, as demonstrated by a /admin/auth/user/?pop=1&t=password URI.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | django | all versions | 1.4.14pip install --upgrade 'django==1.4.14' |
| 🐍PyPI | django | ≥ 1.5&&< 1.5.9 | 1.5.9pip install --upgrade 'django==1.5.9' |
| 🐍PyPI | django | ≥ 1.6&&< 1.6.6 | 1.6.6pip install --upgrade 'django==1.6.6' |
| 🐍PyPI | django | ≥ 1.7a1&&< 1.7c3 | 1.7c3pip install --upgrade 'django==1.7c3' |
Affected Products
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Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
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.
Fix
Update django to 1.4.14 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2014-0483 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2014-0483 in your dependencies?
Find it across PyPI, including transitive dependencies.