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Observable Discrepancy in Django

CVE-2024-45231

  • Django
Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Django prior to 4.2.16, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.9, and 5.1.x prior to 5.1.1. 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).

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy

The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published