CVE-2015-5964

high

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1

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

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-08-24

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

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

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02061