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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-12781

An issue was discovered in Django 1.11 before 1.11.22, 2.1 before 2.1.10, and 2.2 before 2.2.3. An HTTP request is not redirected to HTTPS when the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER and SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT settings are used, and the proxy connects to Django via HTTPS. In other words, django.http.HttpRequest.scheme has incorrect behavior when a client uses HTTP.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:16 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-12781

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Jul 2019, 14:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Django 1.11 before 1.11.22, 2.1 before 2.1.10, and 2.2 before 2.2.3. An HTTP request is not redirected to HTTPS when the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER and SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT settings are used, and the proxy connects to Django via HTTPS. In other words, django.http.HttpRequest.scheme has incorrect behavior when a client uses HTTP.

osv:CVE-2019-12781
Complete source record
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Django 1.11 before 1.11.22, 2.1 before 2.1.10, and 2.2 before 2.2.3. An HTTP request is not redirected to HTTPS when the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER and SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT settings are used, and the proxy connects to Django via HTTPS. In other words, django.http.HttpRequest.scheme has incorrect behavior when a client uses HTTP.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12781",
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        "GHSA-6c7v-2f49-8h26",
        "PYSEC-2019-10"
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        "https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/10",
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        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4043-1/",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4476",
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}