Vulnerability advisory

PYSEC-2024-57

Published Jul 10, 2024Updated Jun 10, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-django-2024-39329CVE-2024-39329GHSA-x7q2-wr7g-xqmf

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

django PyPI

Affected	Fixed in
`5.0` to before 5.0.7	`5.0.7`Advisories →
`4.2` to before 4.2.14	`4.2.14`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (21) `4.2` `4.2.1` `4.2.10` `4.2.11` `4.2.12` `4.2.13` `4.2.2` `4.2.3` `4.2.4` `4.2.5` `4.2.6` `4.2.7` `4.2.8` `4.2.9` `5.0` `5.0.1` `5.0.2` `5.0.3` `5.0.4` `5.0.5` `5.0.6`

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.7 and 4.2 before 4.2.14. The django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend.authenticate() method allows remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack involving login requests for users with an unusable password.

References

Webdocs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ ↗
Webgroups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce ↗
ARTICLEwww.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/ ↗
Advisorygithub.com/advisories/GHSA-x7q2-wr7g-xqmf ↗