Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password Affecting python-django package, versions <1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.6


high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 19.78% (97th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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Red Hat
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-PYTHONDJANGO-538295
  • published 18 Dec 2019
  • disclosed 18 Dec 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 python-django to version 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-django package and not the python-django package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. (One mitigation in the new releases is to send password reset tokens only to the registered user email address.)