Auth bypass in Djangoproject Django
CVE-2014-0482
The contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware middleware in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3, when using the contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend backend, allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via vectors related to the REMOTE_USER header.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (79.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Djangoproject Django — versions 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2
- openSUSE — versions 12.3, 13.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security/ (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/61276 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/61281 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/59782 (third-party-advisory)