Upstream information

CVE-2013-1443 at MITRE

Description

The authentication framework (django.contrib.auth) in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.8, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password which is then hashed.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail 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 entries: 840518 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 840832 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

  • SUSE-SU-2013:1665-1, published Wed Nov 13 07:04:11 MST 2013
    • openSUSE-SU-2013:1492-1 openSUSE-SU-2013:1541-1 openSUSE-SU-2013:1685-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 2.0
  • python-django >= 1.4.8-0.8.1
 Patchnames:
sleclo20sp3-python-django

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Sep 16 08:15:11 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:18:42 2025