CVE-2024-45231

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in Django v5.1.1, v5.0.9, and v4.2.16. The django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm class, when used in a view implementing password reset flows, allows remote attackers to enumerate user e-mail addresses by sending password reset requests and observing the outcome (only when e-mail sending is consistently failing).

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/sep/03/security-releases/

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-10-08

Updated: 2024-10-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium