CVE-2015-5964

Django 1.7.x < 1.7.10 and 1.4.x < 1.4.22 - Denial of Service via Session Store Consumption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (10)

Core 10
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440

Scores

EPSS 0.0493
EPSS Percentile 91.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (38)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.04
djangoproject/django 1.4
djangoproject/django 1.4.1
djangoproject/django 1.4.2
djangoproject/django 1.4.4
djangoproject/django 1.4.5
djangoproject/django 1.4.6
djangoproject/django 1.4.7
... and 28 more
Published Aug 24, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026