CVE-2011-4140
Django Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.34%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2011-4140
To remediate CVE-2011-4140, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.3.1-1 or later
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 1.2.7 or later
Is CVE-2011-4140 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.3.1-1
- from 0, <= 1.2.7
- from 0, < 1.2.7, >= 1.3, < 1.3.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |