GHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2v

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    GHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2v

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 18 Feb 2025

    Summary: Django denial of service via empty session record creation

    Details: `contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware` in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.4, 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption or session record removal) via a large number of requests to `contrib.auth.views.logout`, which triggers the creation of an empty session record.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5963, https://github.com/django/django/commit/2eb86b01d7b59be06076f6179a454d0fd0afaff6, https://github.com/django/django/commit/2f5485346ee6f84b4e52068c04e043092daf55f7, https://github.com/django/django/commit/575f59f9bc7c59a5e41a081d1f5f55fc859c5012, https://github.com/django/django/commit/8cc41ce7a7a8f6bebfdd89d5ab276cd0109f4fc5, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1876, https://github.com/django/django, https://github.com/django/django/blob/4555a823fd57e261e1b19c778429473256c8ea08/docs/releases/1.8.4.txt#L9-L21, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-22.yaml, https://web.archive.org/web/20150904151934/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318, https://web.archive.org/web/20200228050526/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76428, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00026.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: django

    Purl: pkg:pypi/django

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 1.8
    Fixed -1.8.4

    Affected versions

    1.8
    1.8.1
    1.8.2
    1.8.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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