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CVE-2018-6188

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm in Django 2.0 before 2.0.2, and 1.11.8 and 1.11.9, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by leveraging data exposure from the confirm_login_allowed() method, as demonstrated by discovering whether a user account is inactive.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 17.10
• Django: 1.11.8, 1.11.9, 2.0, 2.0.1

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040422
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/feb/01/security-releases/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040422
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/feb/01/security-releases/

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