Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-0482 - Improper Authentication vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 6.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Opensuse
2
Application
Djangoproject
78

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Authentication Abuse
    An attacker obtains unauthorized access to an application, service or device either through knowledge of the inherent weaknesses of an authentication mechanism, or by exploiting a flaw in the authentication scheme's implementation. In such an attack an authentication mechanism is functioning but a carefully controlled sequence of events causes the mechanism to grant access to the attacker. This attack may exploit assumptions made by the target's authentication procedures, such as assumptions regarding trust relationships or assumptions regarding the generation of secret values. This attack differs from Authentication Bypass attacks in that Authentication Abuse allows the attacker to be certified as a valid user through illegitimate means, while Authentication Bypass allows the user to access protected material without ever being certified as an authenticated user. This attack does not rely on prior sessions established by successfully authenticating users, as relied upon for the "Exploitation of Session Variables, Resource IDs and other Trusted Credentials" attack patterns.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Register Man in the Middle
    This attack utilizes a REST(REpresentational State Transfer)-style applications' trust in the system resources and environment to place man in the middle once SSL is terminated. Rest applications premise is that they leverage existing infrastructure to deliver web services functionality. An example of this is a Rest application that uses HTTP Get methods and receives a HTTP response with an XML document. These Rest style web services are deployed on existing infrastructure such as Apache and IIS web servers with no SOAP stack required. Unfortunately from a security standpoint, there frequently is no interoperable identity security mechanism deployed, so Rest developers often fall back to SSL to deliver security. In large data centers, SSL is typically terminated at the edge of the network - at the firewall, load balancer, or router. Once the SSL is terminated the HTTP request is in the clear (unless developers have hashed or encrypted the values, but this is rare). The attacker can utilize a sniffer such as Wireshark to snapshot the credentials, such as username and password that are passed in the clear once SSL is terminated. Once the attacker gathers these credentials, they can submit requests to the web service provider just as authorized user do. There is not typically an authentication on the client side, beyond what is passed in the request itself so once this is compromised, then this is generally sufficient to compromise the service's authentication scheme.
  • Man in the Middle Attack
    This type of attack targets the communication between two components (typically client and server). The attacker places himself in the communication channel between the two components. Whenever one component attempts to communicate with the other (data flow, authentication challenges, etc.), the data first goes to the attacker, who has the opportunity to observe or alter it, and it is then passed on to the other component as if it was never intercepted. This interposition is transparent leaving the two compromised components unaware of the potential corruption or leakage of their communications. The potential for Man-in-the-Middle attacks yields an implicit lack of trust in communication or identify between two components.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9866.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2014-0480, CVE-2014-0481, CVE-2014-0482, CVE-2014-0483 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-11
    plugin id77614
    published2014-09-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77614
    titleFedora 20 : python-django15-1.5.9-1.fc20 (2014-9866)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2014-9866.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(77614);
      script_version("1.5");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0480", "CVE-2014-0481", "CVE-2014-0482", "CVE-2014-0483");
      script_bugtraq_id(69423, 69425, 69429, 69430);
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-9866");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : python-django15-1.5.9-1.fc20 (2014-9866)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Security fix for CVE-2014-0480, CVE-2014-0481, CVE-2014-0482,
    CVE-2014-0483
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129950"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129952"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129954"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129959"
      );
      # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/137554.html
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7f330a50"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected python-django15 package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-django15");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/08/28");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/09/11");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! ereg(pattern:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC20", reference:"python-django15-1.5.9-1.fc20")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python-django15");
    }
    
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201412-22.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-22 (Django: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Django. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker may be able to create a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, or hijack web sessions. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id79975
    published2014-12-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79975
    titleGLSA-201412-22 : Django: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9771.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2014-0480, CVE-2014-0481, CVE-2014-0482, CVE-2014-0483 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-10
    plugin id77590
    published2014-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77590
    titleFedora 20 : python-django-1.6.6-1.fc20 (2014-9771)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9791.NASL
    descriptionupdate to 1.5.9 fixing CVE-2014-3473 CVE-2014-3474 CVE-2014-3475 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-10
    plugin id77592
    published2014-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77592
    titleFedora 19 : python-django-1.5.9-1.fc19 (2014-9791)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-15266.NASL
    descriptionupdate to latest stable release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-12-02
    plugin id79645
    published2014-12-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79645
    titleFedora 20 : python-django14-1.4.16-1.fc20 (2014-15266)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-65.NASL
    descriptionThis update address an issue with reverse() generating external URLs; a denial of service involving file uploads; a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware; and a data leak in the administrative interface. http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html CVE-2014-0480 Django includes the helper function django.core.urlresolvers.reverse, typically used to generate a URL from a reference to a view function or URL pattern name. However, when presented with input beginning with two forward-slash characters (//), reverse() could generate scheme-relative URLs to other hosts, allowing an attacker who is aware of unsafe use of reverse() (i.e., in a situation where an end user can control the target of a redirect, to take a common example) to generate links to sites of their choice, enabling phishing and other attacks. To remedy this, URL reversing now ensures that no URL starts with two slashes (//), replacing the second slash with its URL encoded counterpart (%2F). This approach ensures that semantics stay the same, while making the URL relative to the domain and not to the scheme. CVE-2014-0481 In the default configuration, when Django
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2015-03-26
    plugin id82210
    published2015-03-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82210
    titleDebian DLA-65-1 : python-django security update
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3010.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities were discovered in Django, a high-level Python web development framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2014-0480 Florian Apolloner discovered that in certain situations, URL reversing could generate scheme-relative URLs which could unexpectedly redirect a user to a different host, leading to phishing attacks. - CVE-2014-0481 David Wilson reported a file upload denial of service vulnerability. Django
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-08-23
    plugin id77344
    published2014-08-23
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77344
    titleDebian DSA-3010-1 : python-django - security update
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-15307.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to latest stable release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-12-02
    plugin id79646
    published2014-12-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79646
    titleFedora 19 : python-django14-1.4.16-1.fc19 (2014-15307)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-2347-1.NASL
    descriptionFlorian Apolloner discovered that Django incorrectly validated URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to conduct phishing attacks. (CVE-2014-0480) David Wilson discovered that Django incorrectly handled file name generation. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Django to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0481) David Greisen discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain headers in contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to hijack web sessions. (CVE-2014-0482) Collin Anderson discovered that Django incorrectly checked if a field represented a relationship between models in the administrative interface. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2014-0483). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id77725
    published2014-09-17
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77725
    titleUbuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-2347-1)
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_3C5579F7294A11E499F600E0814CAB4E.NASL
    descriptionThe Django project reports : These releases address an issue with reverse() generating external URLs; a denial of service involving file uploads; a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware; and a data leak in the administrative interface. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id77315
    published2014-08-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77315
    titleFreeBSD : django -- multiple vulnerabilities (3c5579f7-294a-11e4-99f6-00e0814cab4e)
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2014-179.NASL
    descriptionUpdated python-django packages fix security vulnerabilities : These releases address an issue with reverse() generating external URLs (CVE-2014-0480); a denial of service involving file uploads (CVE-2014-0481); a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware (CVE-2014-0482); and a data leak in the administrative interface (CVE-2014-0483).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id77658
    published2014-09-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77658
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-django (MDVSA-2014:179)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2014-542.NASL
    descriptionPython Django was updated to fix security issues and bugs. Update to version 1.4.15 on openSUSE 12.3 : + Prevented reverse() from generating URLs pointing to other hosts to prevent phishing attacks (bnc#893087, CVE-2014-0480) + Removed O(n) algorithm when uploading duplicate file names to fix file upload denial of service (bnc#893088, CVE-2014-0481) + Modified RemoteUserMiddleware to logout on REMOTE_USE change to prevent session hijacking (bnc#893089, CVE-2014-0482) + Prevented data leakage in contrib.admin via query string manipulation (bnc#893090, CVE-2014-0483) + Fixed: Caches may incorrectly be allowed to store and serve private data (bnc#877993, CVE-2014-1418) + Fixed: Malformed redirect URLs from user input not correctly validated (bnc#878641, CVE-2014-3730) + Fixed queries that may return unexpected results on MySQL due to typecasting (bnc#874956, CVE-2014-0474) + Prevented leaking the CSRF token through caching (bnc#874955, CVE-2014-0473) + Fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in URL reversing (bnc#874950, CVE-2014-0472) Update to version 1.5.10 on openSUSE 13.1 : + Prevented reverse() from generating URLs pointing to other hosts to prevent phishing attacks (bnc#893087, CVE-2014-0480) + Removed O(n) algorithm when uploading duplicate file names to fix file upload denial of service (bnc#893088, CVE-2014-0481) + Modified RemoteUserMiddleware to logout on REMOTE_USE change to prevent session hijacking (bnc#893089, CVE-2014-0482) + Prevented data leakage in contrib.admin via query string manipulation (bnc#893090, CVE-2014-0483) - Update to version 1.5.8 : + Fixed: Caches may incorrectly be allowed to store and serve private data (bnc#877993, CVE-2014-1418) + Fixed: Malformed redirect URLs from user input not correctly validated (bnc#878641, CVE-2014-3730) + Fixed queries that may return unexpected results on MySQL due to typecasting (bnc#874956, CVE-2014-0474) + Prevented leaking the CSRF token through caching (bnc#874955, CVE-2014-0473) + Fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in URL reversing (bnc#874950, CVE-2014-0472)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-09-17
    plugin id77718
    published2014-09-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77718
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : python-django (openSUSE-SU-2014:1132-1)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-9788.NASL
    descriptionupdate to 1.4.14 fixing CVE-2014-0480 CVE-2014-0481 CVE-2014-0482, CVE-2014-0483 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-09-10
    plugin id77591
    published2014-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77591
    titleFedora 20 : python-django14-1.4.14-1.fc20 (2014-9788)