Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-625g-gx8c-xcmg

Django Middleware Enables Session Hijacking

Published May 14, 2022Updated Feb 19, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2014-0482PYSEC-2014-6

Severity

CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected versions

django PyPI

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.4.14	`1.4.14`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (39) `1.0.1` `1.0.2` `1.0.3` `1.0.4` `1.1` `1.1.1` `1.1.2` `1.1.3` `1.1.4` `1.2` `1.2.1` `1.2.2` `1.2.3` `1.2.4` `1.2.5` `1.2.6` `1.2.7` `1.3` `1.3.1` `1.3.2` `1.3.3` `1.3.4` `1.3.5` `1.3.6` `1.3.7` `1.4` `1.4.1` `1.4.10` `1.4.11` `1.4.12` `1.4.13` `1.4.2` `1.4.3` `1.4.4` `1.4.5` `1.4.6` `1.4.7` `1.4.8` `1.4.9`
`1.5` to before 1.5.9	`1.5.9`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (9) `1.5` `1.5.1` `1.5.2` `1.5.3` `1.5.4` `1.5.5` `1.5.6` `1.5.7` `1.5.8`
`1.6` to before 1.6.6	`1.6.6`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (6) `1.6` `1.6.1` `1.6.2` `1.6.3` `1.6.4` `1.6.5`
`1.7a1` to before 1.7c3	`1.7c3`Advisories →

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.

GHSA-625g-gx8c-xcmg

Affected versions

django PyPI

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