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CVE-2015-5963

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Date: August 24, 2015

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.

Language: Python

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (25)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76428

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1876

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html

Url: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20150904151934/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318

Url: https://github.com/django/django/blob/4555a823fd57e261e1b19c778429473256c8ea08/docs/releases/1.8.4.txt#L9-L21

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html

Url: https://github.com/django/django/commit/2f5485346ee6f84b4e52068c04e043092daf55f7

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318

Url: https://github.com/django/django

Url: https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-22.yaml

Url: https://github.com/django/django/commit/575f59f9bc7c59a5e41a081d1f5f55fc859c5012

Url: https://github.com/django/django/commit/8cc41ce7a7a8f6bebfdd89d5ab276cd0109f4fc5

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html

Url: https://github.com/django/django/commit/2eb86b01d7b59be06076f6179a454d0fd0afaff6

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5963

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20200228050526/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76428

Url: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00026.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5963

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-770

Top Fix

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Upgrade to version Django - 1.8.4;Django - 1.7.10;Django - 1.4.22

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2015-5963

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Date: August 24, 2015

Language: Python

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Related Resources (25)

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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