Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-89hj-xfx5-7q66

Django Reuses Cached CSRF Token

Published May 17, 2022Updated Apr 13, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2014-0473PYSEC-2014-2

Severity

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

Affected versions

django PyPI

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.4.11	`1.4.11`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (36) `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` `1.4.2` `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 1.5.6	`1.5.6`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (6) `1.5` `1.5.1` `1.5.2` `1.5.3` `1.5.4` `1.5.5`
`1.6` to before 1.6.3	`1.6.3`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (3) `1.6` `1.6.1` `1.6.2`

Description

The caching framework in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 reuses a cached CSRF token for all anonymous users, which allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protections by reading the CSRF cookie for anonymous users.

GHSA-89hj-xfx5-7q66

Affected versions

django PyPI

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