Race Condition Affecting django-background-tasks package, versions [,1.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-DJANGOBACKGROUNDTASKS-7856168
  • published 2 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 1 Sep 2024
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 1 Sep 2024

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade django-background-tasks to version 1.1.6 or higher.

Overview

django-background-tasks is a Database backed asynchronous task queue

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition in the database during multi-threading due to assigning individual database connections to each thread.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    Low
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None