usn-4224-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-12-19 01:02
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
Summary
python-django vulnerability
Details

Simon Charette discovered that the password reset functionality in Django used a Unicode case insensitive query to retrieve accounts associated with an email address. An attacker could possibly use this to obtain password reset tokens and hijack accounts.

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  "id": "USN-4224-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:43Z",
  "published": "2019-12-19T01:02:13Z",
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