CVE-2016-2048: Djangoproject Django

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Django 1.9.x before 1.9.2, when ModelAdmin.save_as is set to True, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and create ModelAdmin objects via the "Save as New" option when editing objects and leveraging the "change" permission.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: version 1.9 only; version 1.9.1 only

Published 2016-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.