The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-08-24T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:06:34.982Z

Reserved: 2015-08-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-5964

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-08-24T14:59:09.837

Modified: 2016-12-24T02:59:31.793

Link: CVE-2015-5964

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-08-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5964 - Bugzilla