Improper Authentication Affecting Django package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-DJANGO-9886106
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Aug 2014

Introduced: 20 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-0482  (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 contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware middleware in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3, when using the contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend backend, allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via vectors related to the REMOTE_USER header.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1