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CVE-2020-13254

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 2.2 before 2.2.13 and 3.0 before 3.0.7. In cases where a memcached backend does not perform key validation, passing malformed cache keys could result in a key collision, and potential data leakage.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, 20.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Django: from 2.2 before 2.2.13; from 3.0 before 3.0.7 — fixed in 2.2.13, 3.0.7
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 32
• NetApp Sra Plugin: all versions
• NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
• Oracle Corporation Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit: 8.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Django 2.2.13, 3.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-announce/pPEmb2ot4Fo/X-SMalYSBAAJ
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00016.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4A2AP4T7RKPBCLTI2NNQG3T6MINDUUMZ/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0002/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4381-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4381-2/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4705
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2020/jun/03/security-releases/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-announce/pPEmb2ot4Fo/X-SMalYSBAAJ

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