CVE-2014-0473: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The caching framework in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 reuses a cached CSRF token for all anonymous users, which allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protections by reading the CSRF cookie for anonymous users.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.10 only; version 14.04 only
• Djangoproject Django: version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.4 only; version 1.5.5 only; …

Published 2014-04-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.