Denial of Service Vulnerability in Django Session Store

CVE-2015-5964 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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