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CVE-2024-45231: Django allows enumeration of user e-mail addresses

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-203

Description

An issue was discovered in Django v5.1.1, v5.0.9, and v4.2.16. The django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm class, when used in a view implementing password reset flows, allows remote attackers to enumerate user e-mail addresses by sending password reset requests and observing the outcome (only when e-mail sending is consistently failing).

Affected products

• Django: from 4.2.0 before 4.2.16; from 5.0 before 5.0.9; 5.1 — fixed in 4.2.16, 5.0.9
• Pypi Django: before 4.2.16; from 5.0 before 5.0.9; from 5.1 before 5.1.1; 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.1, 1.1.1 (+356) — fixed in 4.2.16, 5.0.9, 5.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Django 4.2.16, 5.0.9; Pypi Django 4.2.16, 5.0.9, 5.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/sep/03/security-releases/

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