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

EPSS: 0.020 (78.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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