Improper Authentication Affecting python-django package, versions <1.5.4-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.28% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-PYTHONDJANGO-518362
- published 23 Sep 2013
- disclosed 23 Sep 2013
Introduced: 23 Sep 2013
CVE-2013-1443 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
python-django
to version 1.5.4-1 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
The authentication framework (django.contrib.auth) in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.8, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password which is then hashed.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1443
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758
- http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Set-a-reasonable-upper-bound-on-password-length-td5032218.html
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00035.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-1443