PyPi: Django

CVE-2018-16984

Safety vulnerability ID: 36522

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The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Oct 02, 2018 Updated at Nov 05, 2024
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Advisory

An issue was discovered in Django 2.1 before 2.1.2, in which unprivileged users can read the password hashes of arbitrary accounts. The read-only password widget used by the Django Admin to display an obfuscated password hash was bypassed if a user has only the "view" permission (new in Django 2.1), resulting in display of the entire password hash to those users. This may result in a vulnerability for sites with legacy user accounts using insecure hashes.

Affected package

django

Latest version: 5.1.3

A high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

An issue was discovered in Django 2.1 before 2.1.2, in which unprivileged users can read the password hashes of arbitrary accounts. The read-only password widget used by the Django Admin to display an obfuscated password hash was bypassed if a user has only the "view" permission (new in Django 2.1), resulting in display of the entire password hash to those users. This may result in a vulnerability for sites with legacy user accounts using insecure hashes.


CONFIRM:https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/oct/01/security-release/: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/oct/01/security-release/
SECTRACK:1041749: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041749

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 4.9

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 4.9
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
HIGH
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
NONE
Availability Availability (A)
NONE

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 4.0
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I)
NONE
Availability Impact (A)
NONE