CVE-2014-1418

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Django 1.4 before 1.4.13, 1.5 before 1.5.8, 1.6 before 1.6.5, and 1.7 before 1.7b4 does not properly include the (1) Vary: Cookie or (2) Cache-Control header in responses, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or poison the cache via a request from certain browsers.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
Django: 1.7-beta1, 1.7-beta2, 1.7-beta3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2 (+28)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61281
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2212-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2934
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/14/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/3
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/may/14/security-releases-issued/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61281
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2212-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2934
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/14/10

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