CVE-2008-3909
The administration application in Django 0.91, 0.95, and 0.96 stores unauthenticated HTTP POST requests and processes them after…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.92% · top 39% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIDjangoGHSA-r5cj-wv24-92p5 (opens in a new tab)
References (10)
- 31837 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1640 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7288 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460966 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2533 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31961 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080903 django CSRF vuln (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7672 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 47906 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-r5cj-wv24-92p5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-3909)Record last updated .