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CVE-2016-7401

Published: Oct 03, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
6.1 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7401
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/254.html

The cookie parsing code in Django before 1.8.15 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10, when used on a site with Google Analytics, allows remote attackers to bypass an intended CSRF protection mechanism by setting arbitrary cookies.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Ubuntu_linuxCanonical12.04 (including)12.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linuxCanonical14.04 (including)14.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linuxCanonical16.04 (including)16.04 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6RedHatpython-django-0:1.6.11-6.el6ost*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7RedHatpython-django-0:1.6.11-6.el7ost*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7RedHatpython-django-0:1.6.11-6.el7ost*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7RedHatpython-django-0:1.8.15-1.el7ost*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)RedHatpython-django-0:1.8.15-1.el7ost*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)RedHatpython-django-0:1.8.15-1.el7ost*
Python-djangoUbuntudevel*
Python-djangoUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Python-djangoUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
Python-djangoUbuntuprecise*
Python-djangoUbuntutrusty*
Python-djangoUbuntutrusty/esm*
Python-djangoUbuntuupstream*
Python-djangoUbuntuxenial*

References

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