Django Information leakage in AuthenticationForm · CVE-2018-6188 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Django Information leakage in AuthenticationForm

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 3, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 7, 2024

Package

django (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2

>= 1.11.8, < 1.11.10

Patched versions

2.0.2

1.11.10

Description

django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm in Django 2.0 before 2.0.2, and 1.11.8 and 1.11.9, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by leveraging data exposure from the confirm_login_allowed() method, as demonstrated by discovering whether a user account is inactive.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 3, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated May 7, 2024

Severity

High

7.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N