pysec-2015-23
Vulnerability from pysec
Published
2015-08-24 14:59
Modified
2021-07-15 02:22
Details

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.

Impacted products
Name purl
django pkg:pypi/django
Aliases


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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "django",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/django"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.7"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.7.10"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "1.4"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.4.22"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.4",
        "1.4.1",
        "1.4.10",
        "1.4.11",
        "1.4.12",
        "1.4.13",
        "1.4.14",
        "1.4.15",
        "1.4.16",
        "1.4.17",
        "1.4.18",
        "1.4.19",
        "1.4.2",
        "1.4.20",
        "1.4.21",
        "1.4.3",
        "1.4.4",
        "1.4.5",
        "1.4.6",
        "1.4.7",
        "1.4.8",
        "1.4.9",
        "1.7",
        "1.7.1",
        "1.7.2",
        "1.7.3",
        "1.7.4",
        "1.7.5",
        "1.7.6",
        "1.7.7",
        "1.7.8",
        "1.7.9"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2015-5964"
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2015-23",
  "modified": "2021-07-15T02:22:10.010649Z",
  "published": "2015-08-24T14:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338"
    }
  ]
}


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