Vulnerability advisory

PYSEC-2014-2

Published Apr 23, 2014Updated Jun 10, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2014-0473GHSA-89hj-xfx5-7q66

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

django PyPI

Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.4.11	`1.4.11`Advisories →
`1.5` to before 1.5.6	`1.5.6`Advisories →
`1.6` to before 1.6.3	`1.6.3`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (45) `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` `1.5.1` `1.5.2` `1.5.3` `1.5.4` `1.5.5` `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.

References

ARTICLEwww.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/apr/21/security/ ↗
Advisorywww.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2169-1 ↗
Advisoryrhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0457.html ↗
Advisorywww.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2934 ↗
Advisoryrhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0456.html ↗
Weblists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html ↗
Advisorysecunia.com/advisories/61281 ↗
Advisorygithub.com/advisories/GHSA-89hj-xfx5-7q66 ↗