Use of Persistent Cookies Containing Sensitive Information Affecting django package, versions [5.2a1,5.2.14)[6.0a1,6.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-16425761
  • published6 May 2026
  • disclosed5 May 2026
  • creditCantina

Introduced: 5 May 2026

CVE-2026-35192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-539  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Django to version 5.2.14, 6.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Persistent Cookies Containing Sensitive Information in the SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST. An attacker can hijack a user's session by exploiting public cached pages that do not vary response headers on cookies if the session is not modified and SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST=True.

CVSS Base Scores

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