CVE-2008-3909 (GCVE-0-2008-3909)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-04 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:53
VLAI
Summary
The administration application in Django 0.91, 0.95, and 0.96 stores unauthenticated HTTP POST requests and processes them after successful authentication occurs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and delete or modify data via unspecified requests.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/s… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2533 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/31961 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://osvdb.org/47906 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2008-09-02 00:00
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