Upstream information

CVE-2015-5964 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 941587 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Cloud 2.0 python-django Ignore
SUSE Cloud 4 python-django Ignore
SUSE Cloud 4 Dependencies python-django Ignore
SUSE Cloud 5 python-Django Released
SUSE Enterprise Storage 1 python-Django Released
SUSE Enterprise Storage 1.0 python-Django Affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 python-Django Released


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Aug 13 13:38:52 2015
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:06:35 2023