Vulnerability CVE-2014-0482
Published: 2014-08-26

Description:
The contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware middleware in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3, when using the contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend backend, allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via vectors related to the REMOTE_USER header.

Type:

CWE-287

 (Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6/10
6.4/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Djangoproject -> Django 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61276
http://secunia.com/advisories/61281
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security/
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