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PYSEC-2018-4

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / django

Introduced in: 2.0 Fixed in: 2.0.2

Fix pip install --upgrade 'django>=2.0.2'

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/feb/01/security-releases/ [ARTICLE]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040422 [WEB]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/ [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rf4j-j272-fj86 [ADVISORY]