pysec - pysec-2015-19

pysec-2015-19

Vulnerability from pysec

Published

2015-06-02 14:59

Modified

2021-07-15 02:22

Details

The session.flush function in the cached_db backend in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.2 does not properly flush the session, which allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key.

Aliases

CVE-2015-3982

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      ],
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  ],
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  ],
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  "id": "PYSEC-2015-19",
  "modified": "2021-07-15T02:22:09.577532Z",
  "published": "2015-06-02T14:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/may/20/security-release/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74960"
    }
  ]
}

cve-2015-3982

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2015-06-02 14:00

Modified

2024-08-06 06:04

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/may/20/security-release/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74960	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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n/a

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