CVE-2015-5143

high

Description

The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple requests with unique session keys.

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75666

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1686.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1678.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-07-14

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H