CVE-2021-46898 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

views/switch.py in django-grappelli (aka Django Grappelli) before 2.15.2 attempts to prevent external redirection with startswith("/") but this does not consider a protocol-relative URL (e.g., //example.com) attack.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00234.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:vonautomatisch:django_grappelli:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Vonautomatisch Subscribe	Django Grappelli Subscribe

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-0062	views/switch.py in django-grappelli (aka Django Grappelli) before 2.15.2 attempts to prevent external redirection with startswith(\"/\") but this does not consider a protocol-relative URL (e.g., //example.com) attack.
Github GHSA	GHSA-9x43-5qcq-h79q	Django Grappelli Open Redirect vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli/commit/4ca94bcda0fa2720594506853d85e00c8212968f
https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli/compare/2.15.1...2.15.2
https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli/issues/975
https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli/pull/976

History

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-10-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T13:11:11.083Z

Reserved: 2023-10-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-46898

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:17:42.976Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-22T19:15:08.297

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:34:53.027

Link: CVE-2021-46898

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-601

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