USN-4224-1: Django vulnerability

Publication date

19 December 2019

Overview

Django accounts could be hijacked through password reset requests.


Packages

Details

Simon Charette discovered that the password reset functionality in
Django used a Unicode case insensitive query to retrieve accounts
associated with an email address. An attacker could possibly use this
to obtain password reset tokens and hijack accounts.

Simon Charette discovered that the password reset functionality in
Django used a Unicode case insensitive query to retrieve accounts
associated with an email address. An attacker could possibly use this
to obtain password reset tokens and hijack accounts.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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