CVE-2008-3909

Description

The administration application in Django 0.91, 0.95, and 0.96 stores unauthenticated HTTP POST requests and processes them after successful authentication occurs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and delete or modify data via unspecified requests.

Category

5.8
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.36%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/31837 third party advisory
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/ patch
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640 vendor advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00091.html vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460966
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2533 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/31961 third party advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/03/4 mailing list
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00131.html vendor advisory
http://osvdb.org/47906 vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2008-3909?
CVE-2008-3909 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2008-3909?
To fix CVE-2008-3909, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2008-3909 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2008-3909 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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