CVE-2011-4140
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/11/1 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/11/1Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/2Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737366Patch
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/sep/09/Patch
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/sep/10/127/Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46614
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2332
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14700881