CVE-2014-0482: Djangoproject Django

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.4 only; version 1.6.5 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only; version 13.1 only

Published 2014-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.