CVEs-PoC/2015/CVE-2015-5964.md

CVE-2015-5964

Description

The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cve-scores