CVE-2008-3909

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The administration application in Django 0.91, 0.95, and 0.96 stores unauthenticated HTTP POST requests and processes them after successful authentication occurs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and delete or modify data via unspecified requests.

Affected products

Django: from 0.91 before 0.91.3; from 0.95 before 0.95.4; from 0.96 before 0.96.3 — fixed in 0.91.3, 0.95.4, 0.96.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Django 0.91.3, 0.95.4, 0.96.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://osvdb.org/47906
http://secunia.com/advisories/31837
http://secunia.com/advisories/31961
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/03/4
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2533
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460966
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00091.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00131.html
http://osvdb.org/47906
http://secunia.com/advisories/31837

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