A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Django 1.4.7 (Content Management System). This affects the function method_decorator of the component django.contrib.auth. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality.

The weakness was shared 09/14/2013 as Django 1.4.8 release notes as confirmed release notes (Website). The advisory is shared at docs.djangoproject.com. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue. The advisory points out:

he decoration of the add_view and user_change_password user admin views with sensitive_post_parameters() did not include method_decorator() (required since the views are methods) resulting in the decorator not being properly applied.

Upgrading to version 1.4.8 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. The release notes contains the following remark:

This usage has been fixed and sensitive_post_parameters() will now throw an exception if it’s improperly used.

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• Content Management System

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• Django

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• 1.4.7

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• open-source

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