UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5964

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5964

    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5964

    Published: 18 Aug 2015Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5964
    Aliases:
    USN-2720-1

    Summary:

    Details: The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5964, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2720-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5964

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-django

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.6.1-2ubuntu0.10

    Affected versions

    1.5.4-1ubuntu1

    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
    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5964 | CVE-DB