CVE-2014-0473 (GCVE-0-2014-0473)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-23 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:20
VLAI
Summary
The caching framework in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 reuses a cached CSRF token for all anonymous users, which allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protections by reading the CSRF cookie for anonymous users.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0456.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2014-04-21 00:00
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  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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