CVE-2009-2659: Django Project Django

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Admin media handler in core/servers/basehttp.py in Django 1.0 and 0.96 does not properly map URL requests to expected "static media files," which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.

Affected products

• Django Project Django: version 0.96 only; version 1.0 only

Published 2009-08-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.