CVE-2015-5963
contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.4, 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 5.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.4, 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption or session record removal) via a large number of requests to contrib.auth.views.logout, which triggers the creation of an empty session record.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 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 · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.2% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIDjangoGHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2v (opens in a new tab)
References
13
- FEDORA-2015-1dd5bc998f (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1580 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1894 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3338 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1033318 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1767 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1598 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2720-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1766 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1876 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 76428 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0011 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2v (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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