CVE-2015-5964

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.

The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-08-24 14:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-24 02:59:00

Affected Software

Django Project Django 1.4

1.4

Django Project Django 1.4.1

1.4.1

Django Project Django 1.4.2

1.4.2

Django Project Django 1.4.4

1.4.4

Django Project Django 1.4.5

1.4.5

Django Project Django 1.4.6

1.4.6

Django Project Django 1.4.7

1.4.7

Django Project Django 1.4.8

1.4.8

Django Project Django 1.4.9

1.4.9

Django Project Django 1.4.10

1.4.10

Django Project Django 1.4.11

1.4.11

Django Project Django 1.4.12

1.4.12

Django Project Django 1.4.13

1.4.13

Django Project Django 1.4.14

1.4.14

Django Project Django 1.4.17

1.4.17

Django Project Django 1.4.19

1.4.19

Django Project Django 1.4.20

1.4.20

Django Project Django 1.4.21

1.4.21

Django Project Django 1.7 beta1

1.7

Django Project Django 1.7 beta2

1.7

Django Project Django 1.7 beta3

1.7

Django Project Django 1.7 beta4

1.7

Django Project Django 1.7 release candidate 1

1.7

Django Project Django 1.7 release candidate 2

1.7

Django Project Django 1.7 release candidate 3

1.7

Django Project Django 1.7.1

1.7.1

Django Project Django 1.7.2

1.7.2

Django Project Django 1.7.3

1.7.3

Django Project Django 1.7.4

1.7.4

Django Project Django 1.7.5

1.7.5

Django Project Django 1.7.6

1.7.6

Django Project Django 1.7.7

1.7.7

Django Project Django 1.7.8

1.7.8

Django Project Django 1.7.9

1.7.9

Django Project Django 1.8 Beta 1

1.8

Django Project Django 1.8.0

1.8.0

Django Project Django 1.8.1

1.8.1

Django Project Django 1.8.2

1.8.2

Django Project Django 1.8.3

1.8.3

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04

15.04

Oracle Solaris 11.3

11.3

References

FEDORA-2015-1dd5bc998f

RHSA-2015:1766

RHSA-2015:1767

RHSA-2015:1894

DSA-3338

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

Third Party Advisory

76440

1033318

USN-2720-1

Third Party Advisory

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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