GHSA-rf4j-j272-fj86

Django vulnerable to information leakage in AuthenticationForm

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-6188

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	Django	>= 2.0a1, < 2.0.2	2.0.2
PyPI	Django	>= 1.11.8, < 1.11.10	1.11.10

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

`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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6188 advisory
https://github.com/django/django/commit/57b95fedad5e0b83fc9c81466b7d1751c6427aae web
https://github.com/django/django/commit/c37bb28677295f6edda61d8ac461014ef0d3aeb2 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rf4j-j272-fj86 advisory
https://github.com/django/django package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2018-4.yaml web
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200517143909/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040422 web
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/feb/01/security-releases web