CVE-2015-5143
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-399
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple requests with unique session keys.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)7%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1678.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1686.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75666