Use of hardcoded DB password Affecting django package, versions [,1.8.16)[1.9,1.9.11)[1.10,1.10.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.29% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-40439
  • published1 Nov 2016
  • disclosed1 Nov 2016
  • creditMarti Raudsepp

Introduced: 1 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-259  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package used a hardcoded password for a temporary database user created when running tests with an Oracle database. This user is usually dropped after the test suite completes, but not when using the manage.py test --keepdb option or if the user has an active session. This makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access to the database.

CVSS Scores

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