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A vulnerability was found in Django 1.5.1. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Password Reset Handler. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. Furthermore, an exploit is available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Django 1.5.1 (Content Management System). It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block of the component Password Reset Handler. 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 published 02/06/2013 as not defined advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at code.djangoproject.com. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 1.6) eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be patching the affected component. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (95607†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Content Management System

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• Django

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• 1.5.1

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/django/django/

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