CVE-2016-7401

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

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 products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Django: through 1.8.14; 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5 (+4)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2038.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2039.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2040.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2041.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2042.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2043.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3678
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93182
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036899
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3089-1
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/sep/26/security-releases/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2038.html

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