cve-2015-3982
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-06-02 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:04
Severity ?
Summary
The session.flush function in the cached_db backend in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.2 does not properly flush the session, which allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74960
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/may/20/security-release/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74960
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/may/20/security-release/Patch, Vendor Advisory
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