GHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2vMediumCVSS 7.5

Django denial of service via empty session record creation

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
September 17, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2015-5963 →

📋 Description

contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.4, 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption or session record removal) via a large number of requests to contrib.auth.views.logout, which triggers the creation of an empty session record.

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/Django:>= 1.8, < 1.8.4
  • pip/Django:>= 1.7, < 1.7.10
  • pip/Django:>= 1.4, < 1.4.22

🔗 References (21)