CVE-2019-19844Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 53.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. (One mitigation in the new releases is to send password reset tokens only to the registered user email address.)
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Django < 3.0 < 2.2 < 1.11 - Account Hijack (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 47879webapps, pythonpublished 24 Dec 2019Verified
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Timeline
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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 | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 53.6% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIDjangoGHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6 (opens in a new tab)
References
References10
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/3oaB2rVH3a0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-4224-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-4598 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20200108 [SECURITY] [DSA 4598-1] python-django security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155872/Django-Account-Hijack.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200110-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-adb4f0143a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-202004-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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-2019-0040 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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