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CVE-2019-19844

Safety vulnerability ID: 37661

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Created at Dec 18, 2019 Updated at Nov 05, 2024
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Advisory

Django 1.11.27, 2.2.9 and 3.0.1 include a fix for CVE-2019-19844: Account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. One mitigation in the new releases is to send password reset tokens only to the registered user email address.

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

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*December 18, 2019*

Django 3.0.1 fixes a security issue and several bugs in 3.0.

CVE-2019-19844: Potential account hijack via password reset form
================================================================

By submitting a suitably crafted email address making use of Unicode
characters, that compared equal to an existing user email when lower-cased for
comparison, an attacker could be sent a password reset token for the matched
account.

In order to avoid this vulnerability, password reset requests now compare the
submitted email using the stricter, recommended algorithm for case-insensitive
comparison of two identifiers from `Unicode Technical Report 36, section
2.11.2(B)(2)`__. Upon a match, the email containing the reset token will be
sent to the email address on record rather than the submitted address.

.. __: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/Recommendations_General

Bugfixes
========

* Fixed a regression in Django 3.0 by restoring the ability to use Django
inside Jupyter and other environments that force an async context, by adding
an option to disable :ref:`async-safety` mechanism with
``DJANGO_ALLOW_ASYNC_UNSAFE`` environment variable (:ticket:`31056`).

* Fixed a regression in Django 3.0 where ``RegexPattern``, used by
:func:`~django.urls.re_path`, returned positional arguments to be passed to
the view when all optional named groups were missing (:ticket:`31061`).

* Reallowed, following a regression in Django 3.0,
:class:`~django.db.models.expressions.Window` expressions to be used in
conditions outside of queryset filters, e.g. in
:class:`~django.db.models.expressions.When` conditions (:ticket:`31060`).

* Fixed a data loss possibility in
:class:`~django.contrib.postgres.forms.SplitArrayField`. When using with
``ArrayField(BooleanField())``, all values after the first ``True`` value
were marked as checked instead of preserving passed values (:ticket:`31073`).


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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

CRITICAL 9.8

CVSS v3 Details

CRITICAL 9.8
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 5.0
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
NONE