Detections
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Fedora 8 : Django-0.96.3-1.fc8 (2008-7288)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 34125
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Update to upstream version 0.96.3 that fixes cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue that may occur after user re-authentication after expiration of current session:http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/ This issue also affected deployments with Django's bundled CSRF-protection module activated.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected Django package.See Also
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 34125
File Name: fedora_2008-7288.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 9/10/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:django
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-3909