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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• PyPIDjangoGHSA-89hj-xfx5-7q66 (opens in a new tab)

References (7)

• USN-2169-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/apr/21/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:0457 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 61281 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-2934 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2014:1132 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:0456 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-89hj-xfx5-7q66 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 09:20 UTC.