MEDIUM 6.5 PyPI
Django Middleware Enables Session Hijacking
GHSA-625g-gx8c-xcmg · CVE-2014-0482 · PYSEC-2014-6
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Description
The contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware middleware in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3, when using the contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend backend, allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via vectors related to the REMOTE_USER header.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0482
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/0268b855f9eab3377f2821164ef3e66037789e09
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/5307ce565fbedb9cc27cbe7c757b41a00438d37c
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/c9e3b9949cd55f090591fbdc4a114fcb8368b6d9
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/dd68f319b365f6cb38c5a6c106faf4f6142d7d88
- PACKAGE https://github.com/django/django
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/blob/aa3cb3f37265be37d892e2b391ff023e9caee2a4/docs/releases/1.5.9.txt#L42
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2014-6.yaml
- WEB https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html
- WEB http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010
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