ghsa-x38m-486c-2wr9
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 03:16
Modified
2024-09-18 19:59
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Summary
Denial-of-service possibility in logout() view by filling session store
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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "Django"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.7"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.7.10"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "Django"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.4"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.4.22"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2015-5964"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-29T16:38:00Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2015-08-24T14:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "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": "GHSA-x38m-486c-2wr9",
  "modified": "2024-09-18T19:59:52Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T03:16:12Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5964"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/django/django/commit/2f5485346ee6f84b4e52068c04e043092daf55f7"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/django/django/commit/575f59f9bc7c59a5e41a081d1f5f55fc859c5012"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/django/django/commit/8cc41ce7a7a8f6bebfdd89d5ab276cd0109f4fc5"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/django/django"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-23.yaml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150906124157/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150923161048/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200228051814/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Denial-of-service possibility in logout() view by filling session store"
}


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