HIGH 7.5 PyPI
Denial-of-service possibility in logout() view by filling session store
GHSA-x38m-486c-2wr9 · CVE-2015-5964 · PYSEC-2015-23
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Description
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.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5964
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/2f5485346ee6f84b4e52068c04e043092daf55f7
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/575f59f9bc7c59a5e41a081d1f5f55fc859c5012
- WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/8cc41ce7a7a8f6bebfdd89d5ab276cd0109f4fc5
- PACKAGE https://github.com/django/django
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-23.yaml
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20150906124157/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20150923161048/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20200228051814/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440
- WEB https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases
- WEB http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
- WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html
- WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html
- WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html
- WEB http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338
- WEB http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- WEB http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1
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