Django 2.2.18 release notes

February 1, 2021

Django 2.2.18 fixes a security issue with severity “low” in 2.2.17.

CVE-2021-3281: Potential directory-traversal via archive.extract()

The django.utils.archive.extract() function, used by startapp —template and startproject —template, allowed directory-traversal via an archive with absolute paths or relative paths with dot segments.