CVE-2014-0473

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The caching framework in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 reuses a cached CSRF token for all anonymous users, which allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protections by reading the CSRF cookie for anonymous users.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
Django: through 1.4.10; 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5 (+16)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0456.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0457.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61281
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2934
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2169-1
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/apr/21/security/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0456.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0457.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61281
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2934

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