Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-h582-2pch-3xv3

Django Denial-of-service by filling session store

Published Jul 5, 2019Updated Sep 18, 2024OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2015-5143PYSEC-2015-20

Severity

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

Affected versions

django PyPI

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.4.21	`1.4.21`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (46) `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` `1.4.14` `1.4.15` `1.4.16` `1.4.17` `1.4.18` `1.4.19` `1.4.2` `1.4.20` `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 1.7.9	`1.7.9`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (34) `1.5` `1.5.1` `1.5.10` `1.5.11` `1.5.12` `1.5.2` `1.5.3` `1.5.4` `1.5.5` `1.5.6` `1.5.7` `1.5.8` `1.5.9` `1.6` `1.6.1` `1.6.10` `1.6.11` `1.6.2` `1.6.3` `1.6.4` `1.6.5` `1.6.6` `1.6.7` `1.6.8` `1.6.9` `1.7` `1.7.1` `1.7.2` `1.7.3` `1.7.4` `1.7.5` `1.7.6` `1.7.7` `1.7.8`
`1.8` to before 1.8.3	`1.8.3`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (3) `1.8` `1.8.1` `1.8.2`

Description

The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple requests with unique session keys.

GHSA-h582-2pch-3xv3

Affected versions

django PyPI

Description

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