GHSA-rrqc-c2jx-6jgv

Django allows enumeration of user e-mail addresses

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-45231

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	Django	>= 5.1, < 5.1.1	5.1.1
PyPI	Django	>= 5.0, < 5.0.9	5.0.9
PyPI	Django	< 4.2.16	4.2.16

Details

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

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).

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45231 advisory
https://github.com/django/django/commit/3c733c78d6f8e50296d6e248968b6516c92a53ca web
https://github.com/django/django/commit/96d84047715ea1715b4bd1594e46122b8a77b9e2 web
https://github.com/django/django/commit/bf4888d317ba4506d091eeac6e8b4f1fcc731199 web
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security web
https://github.com/django/django package
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/django-announce web
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/sep/03/security-releases web