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PYSEC-2014-6

Quick fix

PYSEC-2014-6 — django: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'django>=1.4.14'

Details

The contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware middleware in Django before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.9, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before release candidate 3, when using the contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend backend, allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via vectors related to the REMOTE_USER header.

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Affected packages

PyPI/django

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.4.14

Fixpip install --upgrade 'django>=1.4.14'

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010[ADVISORY]
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security/[ARTICLE]
http://secunia.com/advisories/59782[ADVISORY]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/61281[ADVISORY]
http://secunia.com/advisories/61276[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-625g-gx8c-xcmg[ADVISORY]