🛡️ CVE-2024-32879 — social-auth-app-django

🟡 CVSS 4.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-178 NVD
4.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

social-auth-app-django affected by Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

Impact

Due to default case-insensitive collation in MySQL or MariaDB databases, third-party authentication user IDs are not case-sensitive and could cause different IDs to match.

Patches

This issue has been addressed by https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/pull/566 and fix released in 5.4.1.

Workarounds

An immediate workaround would be to change collation of the affected field:

```mysql

ALTER TABLE social_auth_usersocialauth MODIFY uid varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin;

```

References

This issue was discovered by folks at https://opencraft.com/.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-32879 is classified as CWE-178: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity. The product does not properly account for differences in case sensitivity when accessing or determining the properties of a resource, leading to inconsistent results.

Affected software

CVE-2024-32879 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • social-auth-app-django (fixed in 5.4.1)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 24 April 2024 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

CVE-2024-32879 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 4.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-178
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-04-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
social-auth-app-django — 5.4.1
unknown — —

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