🛡️ CVE-2014-0482 — django

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Django Middleware Enables Session Hijacking

The contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware middleware in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3, when using the contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend backend, allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via vectors related to the REMOTE_USER header.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-0482 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2014-0482 is recorded against 1 package.

django (from 1.7a1 up to 1.7c3)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 19 February 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
www.djangoproject.com (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE CWE-287

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2022-05-14

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2025-02-19

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
django	1.7a1	1.7c3

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0482

WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/0268b855f9eab3377f2821164ef3e66037789e09

WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/5307ce565fbedb9cc27cbe7c757b41a00438d37c

WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/c9e3b9949cd55f090591fbdc4a114fcb8368b6d9

WEB https://github.com/django/django/commit/dd68f319b365f6cb38c5a6c106faf4f6142d7d88

PACKAGE https://github.com/django/django

WEB https://github.com/django/django/blob/aa3cb3f37265be37d892e2b391ff023e9caee2a4/docs/releases/1.5.9.txt#L42

WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2014-6.yaml

WEB https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security

WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html

WEB http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010

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