CVE-2011-4140

Advisory

The CSRF protection mechanism in Django through 1.2.7 and 1.3.x through 1.3.1 does not properly handle web-server configurations supporting arbitrary HTTP Host headers, which allows remote attackers to trigger unauthenticated forged requests via vectors involving a DNS CNAME record and a web page containing JavaScript code.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The CSRF protection mechanism in Django through 1.2.7 and 1.3.x through 1.3.1 does not properly handle web-server configurations supporting arbitrary HTTP Host headers, which allows remote attackers to trigger unauthenticated forged requests via vectors involving a DNS CNAME record and a web page containing JavaScript code.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4140
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737366
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/11/1
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/sep/09/
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/2
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/sep/10/127/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46614
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2332
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14700881