CVE-2015-5963
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
36 explicit affected versions
36 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
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.
`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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76428
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1876
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2v
- https://github.com/django/django
- https://github.com/django/django/blob/4555a823fd57e261e1b19c778429473256c8ea08/docs/releases/1.8.4.txt#L9-L21
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/2eb86b01d7b59be06076f6179a454d0fd0afaff6
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/2f5485346ee6f84b4e52068c04e043092daf55f7
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/575f59f9bc7c59a5e41a081d1f5f55fc859c5012
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/8cc41ce7a7a8f6bebfdd89d5ab276cd0109f4fc5
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-22.yaml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5963
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150904151934/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228050526/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76428
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases