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CVE-2015-5963

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
24/08/2015
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.4, 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption or session record removal) via a large number of requests to contrib.auth.views.logout, which triggers the creation of an empty session record.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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