CVE-2019-19844

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 54% (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 54%
  • Public exploit code is available (Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 54%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. (One mitigation in the new releases is to send password reset tokens only to the registered user email address.)

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
70
EG Risk 70/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation65% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
54%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
54% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-21). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

December 18, 2019

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (9)

Auto-updated Oct 5, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Django security releases issued: 3.0.1, 2.2.9, and 1.11.27 | Weblog | Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 4598-1] python-django security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4598
Web page

Django: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202004-17) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
Web page

Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4598-1] python-django security update

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/9
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: python-django-2.2.9-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HCM2DPUI7TOZWN4A6JFQFUVQ2XGE7GUD/
Web page

Archive of security issues | Django documentation | Django

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntupython-django-doc (1.6.11-0ubuntu1.3+esm7) @ trusty2026-10-22ubuntu
ubuntupython3-django (1.8.7-1ubuntu5.11) @ xenial2026-10-22ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(13 across 13 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
py-django—
  • every version up to 1.11.27-r0: fixed in 1.11.27-r0
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Alpine:v3.11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
py3-django—
  • every version up to 1.11.27-r0: fixed in 1.11.27-r0
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
py3-django—
  • every version up to 1.11.27-r0: fixed in 1.11.27-r0
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Alpine:v3.8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
py-django—
  • every version up to 1.11.27-r0: fixed in 1.11.27-r0
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Alpine:v3.9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
py-django—
  • every version up to 1.11.27-r0: fixed in 1.11.27-r0
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Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python-django1:1.11.21-1, 1:1.11.22-1, 1:1.11.22-1~deb10u1, 1:1.11.23-1~deb10u1
  • every version up to 1:1.11.27-1~deb10u1: fixed in 1:1.11.27-1~deb10u1
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python-django—
  • every version up to 2:2.2.9-1: fixed in 2:2.2.9-1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python-django—
  • every version up to 2:2.2.9-1: fixed in 2:2.2.9-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python-django—
  • every version up to 2:2.2.9-1: fixed in 2:2.2.9-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python-django—
  • every version up to 2:2.2.9-1: fixed in 2:2.2.9-1
—
Debian:8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python-django1.7.10-1 ... 1.7.9-1 (16 versions)
  • every version up to 1.7.11-1+deb8u8: fixed in 1.7.11-1+deb8u8
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python-django1:1.10.7-2 ... 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u6 (7 versions)
  • every version up to 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u7: fixed in 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u7
—
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
django1.0.1 ... 2.2.8 (177 versions)
  • every version up to 1.11.27: fixed in 1.11.27
  • 2.0 up to 2.2.9: fixed in 2.2.9
  • 3.0 up to 3.0.1: fixed in 3.0.1
  • 2.2 up to 2.2.9: fixed in 2.2.9
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(2)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 91 of 155 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 9 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 64 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-22 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 54% · 98th percentile
  2. 2026-10-22 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-22 16:25 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 54% · 98th percentile
  5. 2026-10-21 15:24 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-21 15:24 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-09 20:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 54% · 98th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry, 3 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-47879✓ verified
    Published Dec 24, 2019

    Django < 3.0 < 2.2 < 1.11 - Account Hijack

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoC0xsha/CVE_2019_19844
    Published Jan 18, 2020

    CVE-2019-19844 Docker Edition

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCandripwn/django_cve201919844
    Published Dec 25, 2019

    PoC for CVE-2019-19844 ( https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/ )

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCryu22e/django_cve_2019_19844_poc
    Published Dec 21, 2019

    PoC for CVE-2019-19844(https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2019-19844?
CVE-2019-19844 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 18, 2019. Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2019-19844 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2019-19844 was published on December 18, 2019. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2019-19844 actively exploited?
CVE-2019-19844 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 54% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-19844?
CVE-2019-19844 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2019-19844?
A fix for CVE-2019-19844 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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