CVE-2018-6188

Publication date 4 February 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
python-django	17.10 artful	Fixed 1:1.11.4-1ubuntu1.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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Upstream notes that 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10 are unaffected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3559-1
Django vulnerabilities
7 February 2018