CVE-2014-0482 Django Middleware Enables Session Hijacking

What is CVE-2014-0482?

CVE-2014-0482 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Djangoproject Django, published on 26 Aug 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0482?

9 open source packages ship an affected version, including django and Django. It affects 2 products.

Products include Djangoproject Django, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0482?

Upgrade django to a fixed version for your release line: 1.4.14, 1.5.9, 1.6.6 or 1.7c3.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2014-0482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0482, GHSA-625g-gx8c-xcmg, PYSEC-2014-6, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0482.