CVE-2016-7401: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cookie parsing code in Django before 1.8.15 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10, when used on a site with Google Analytics, allows remote attackers to bypass an intended CSRF protection mechanism by setting arbitrary cookies.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Djangoproject Django: up to and including 1.8.14; version 1.9.0 only; version 1.9.1 only; version 1.9.2 only; version 1.9.3 only; version 1.9.4 only; …

Published 2016-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.