Improper Authentication Affecting Django package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.17% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-DJANGO-9885796
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed15 Sept 2013

Introduced: 15 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-1443  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 Django.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream Django package and not the Django package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1