Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-3982 - Unspecified vulnerability in Djangoproject Django 1.8.0/1.8.1
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN djangoproject
nessus
Summary
The session.flush function in the cached_db backend in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.2 does not properly flush the session, which allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 2 |
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_48504AF707AD11E5879C00E0814CAB4E.NASL description The Django project reports : A change to session.flush() in the cached_db session backend in Django 1.8 mistakenly sets the session key to an empty string rather than None. An empty string is treated as a valid session key and the session cookie is set accordingly. Any users with an empty string in their session cookie will use the same session store. session.flush() is called by django.contrib.auth.logout() and, more seriously, by django.contrib.auth.login() when a user switches accounts. If a user is logged in and logs in again to a different account (without logging out) the session is flushed to avoid reuse. After the session is flushed (and its session key becomes last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 83909 published 2015-06-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/83909 title FreeBSD : django -- Fixed session flushing in the cached_db backend (48504af7-07ad-11e5-879c-00e0814cab4e) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(83909); script_version("2.3"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:44"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3982"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : django -- Fixed session flushing in the cached_db backend (48504af7-07ad-11e5-879c-00e0814cab4e)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The Django project reports : A change to session.flush() in the cached_db session backend in Django 1.8 mistakenly sets the session key to an empty string rather than None. An empty string is treated as a valid session key and the session cookie is set accordingly. Any users with an empty string in their session cookie will use the same session store. session.flush() is called by django.contrib.auth.logout() and, more seriously, by django.contrib.auth.login() when a user switches accounts. If a user is logged in and logs in again to a different account (without logging out) the session is flushed to avoid reuse. After the session is flushed (and its session key becomes '') the account details are set on the session and the session is saved. Any users with an empty string in their session cookie will now be logged into that account. Thanks to Sam Cooke for reporting the issue." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/may/20/security-release/" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/48504af7-07ad-11e5-879c-00e0814cab4e.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?bdc741f9" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py27-django"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py27-django-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py32-django"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py32-django-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py33-django"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py33-django-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py34-django"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py34-django-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/05/20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/05/31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/06/01"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py27-django>=1.8<1.8.2")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py32-django>=1.8<1.8.2")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py33-django>=1.8<1.8.2")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py34-django>=1.8<1.8.2")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py27-django-devel<20150531,1")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py32-django-devel<20150531,1")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py33-django-devel<20150531,1")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py34-django-devel<20150531,1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-8691.NASL description fix CVE-2015-3982 - Fixed session flushing in the cached_db backend 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 seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-06-02 plugin id 83931 published 2015-06-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/83931 title Fedora 22 : python-django-1.8.2-1.fc22 (2015-8691)