Description
Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. (One mitigation in the new releases is to send password reset tokens only to the registered user email address.)
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 9.8/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155872/Django-Account-Hijack.html
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/3oaB2rVH3a0
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HCM2DPUI7TOZWN4A6JFQFUVQ2XGE7GUD/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/9
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200110-0003/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4224-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4598
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155872/Django-Account-Hijack.html
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/3oaB2rVH3a0
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HCM2DPUI7TOZWN4A6JFQFUVQ2XGE7GUD/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/9
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200110-0003/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4224-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4598
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/Vendor Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 18, 2019
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified