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Django -- information leakage

Affected packages
py27-django111 < 1.11.10
py34-django111 < 1.11.10
py35-django111 < 1.11.10
py36-django111 < 1.11.10
py27-django20 < 2.0.2
py34-django20 < 2.0.2
py35-django20 < 2.0.2
py36-django20 < 2.0.2

Details

VuXML ID d696473f-9f32-42c5-a106-bf4536fb1f74
Discovery 2018-02-01
Entry 2018-02-02

Django release notes:

CVE-2018-6188: Information leakage in AuthenticationForm

A regression in Django 1.11.8 made AuthenticationForm run its confirm_login_allowed() method even if an incorrect password is entered. This can leak information about a user, depending on what messages confirm_login_allowed() raises. If confirm_login_allowed() isn't overridden, an attacker enter an arbitrary username and see if that user has been set to is_active=False. If confirm_login_allowed() is overridden, more sensitive details could be leaked.

This issue is fixed with the caveat that AuthenticationForm can no longer raise the "This account is inactive." error if the authentication backend rejects inactive users (the default authentication backend, ModelBackend, has done that since Django 1.10). This issue will be revisited for Django 2.1 as a fix to address the caveat will likely be too invasive for inclusion in older versions.

References

CVE Name CVE-2018-6188
URL https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/releases/1.11.10/
URL https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/2.0.2/