CVE-2015-3982: Djangoproject Django

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The session.flush function in the cached_db backend in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.2 does not properly flush the session, which allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only

Published 2015-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.