🛡️ CVE-2016-9013 — django

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-798 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Django user with hardcoded password created when running tests on Oracle

Django 1.8.x before 1.8.16, 1.9.x before 1.9.11, and 1.10.x before 1.10.3 use a hardcoded password for a temporary database user created when running tests with an Oracle database, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access to the database server by leveraging failure to manually specify a password in the database settings TEST dictionary.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-9013 is classified as CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials. Credentials are built into the product, so they are identical on every installation and cannot be rotated.

Affected software

CVE-2016-9013 is recorded against 1 package.

  • django (from 1.8a1 up to 1.8.16)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 18 September 2024. 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 (Package)
github.com (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
www.djangoproject.com (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)
www.ubuntu.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-798
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-09-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
django 1.8a1 1.8.16

References

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