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CVE-2015-5963 (GCVE-0-2015-5963)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:06
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1876 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76428 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2015-08-18 00:00
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