5.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-3909

Published: 04/09/2008 Updated: 08/03/2011
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 516
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The administration application in Django 0.91, 0.95, and 0.96 stores unauthenticated HTTP POST requests and processes them after successful authentication occurs, which allows remote malicious users to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and delete or modify data via unspecified requests.

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Vendor Advisories

Simon Willison discovered that in Django, a Python web framework, the feature to retain HTTP POST data during user reauthentication allowed a remote attacker to perform unauthorized modification of data through cross site request forgery This is possible regardless of the Django plugin to prevent cross site request forgery being enabled The Commo ...