CVE-2015-5964
Denial-of-service possibility in logout() view by filling session store
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 4.7%
Description
The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.
How to fix CVE-2015-5964
To remediate CVE-2015-5964, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.7.10-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.7.10 or later
- —upgrade to 1.7.10 or later
Is CVE-2015-5964 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.7.10-1
- >= 1.7, < 1.7.10
- >= 1.7, < 1.7.10, >= 1.4, < 1.4.22
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:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |