CVE-2014-0483

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-0483  

The administrative interface (contrib.admin) 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 does not check if a field represents a relationship between models, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a to_field parameter in a popup action to an admin change form page, as demonstrated by a /admin/auth/user/?pop=1&t=password URI.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The administrative interface (contrib.admin) 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 does not check if a field represents a relationship between models, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a to_field parameter in a popup action to an admin change form page, as demonstrated by a /admin/auth/user/?pop=1&t=password URI.

Find out more about CVE-2014-0483 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 Django Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) python-django Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 Django14 Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Collin Anderson as the original reporter.

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