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USN-2347-1: Django vulnerabilities

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USN-2347-1: Django vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/26/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/19/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-django

References

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