Django up to 4.2.13/5.0.6 information disclosure

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Django up to 4.2.13/5.0.6. Affected by this vulnerability is the function django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend.authenticate. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-39329. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Django up to 4.2.13/5.0.6. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend.authenticate. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.7 and 4.2 before 4.2.14. The django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend.authenticate() method allows remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack involving login requests for users with an unusable password.

It is possible to read the advisory at docs.djangoproject.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-39329 since 06/23/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210402 (RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16.0 (Critical) (RHSA-2024:8906)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.2.14 or 5.0.7 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at docs.djangoproject.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (210402). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Django

Version

• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.2.8
• 4.2.9
• 4.2.10
• 4.2.11
• 4.2.12
• 4.2.13
• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.0.3
• 5.0.4
• 5.0.5
• 5.0.6

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• open-source

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