Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting django package, versions [,4.2.16)[5.0a1,5.0.9)[5.1a1,5.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-7886958
  • published4 Sept 2024
  • disclosed3 Sept 2024
  • creditThibaut Spriet

Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-45231  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade django to version 4.2.16, 5.0.9, 5.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions due to unhandled email sending failures in the django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm class. This allows attackers to enumerate user email addresses by brute forcing password reset requests and observing the outcomes.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1