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CVE-2024-32879: social-auth-app-django Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-178

Description

Python Social Auth is a social authentication/registration mechanism. Prior to version 5.4.1, due to default case-insensitive collation in MySQL or MariaDB databases, third-party authentication user IDs are not case-sensitive and could cause different IDs to match. This issue has been addressed by a fix released in version 5.4.1. An immediate workaround would be to change collation of the affected field.

Affected products

• python-social-auth social-app-django: before 5.4.1 — fixed in 5.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: python-social-auth social-app-django 5.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/commit/31c3e0c7edb187004d8abbde7e9c4f7ef9098138
• https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/pull/566
• https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/security/advisories/GHSA-2gr8-3wc7-xhj3
• https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/commit/31c3e0c7edb187004d8abbde7e9c4f7ef9098138
• https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/pull/566
• https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/security/advisories/GHSA-2gr8-3wc7-xhj3

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