CVE-2018-16984: Djangoproject Django

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Django 2.1 before 2.1.2, in which unprivileged users can read the password hashes of arbitrary accounts. The read-only password widget used by the Django Admin to display an obfuscated password hash was bypassed if a user has only the "view" permission (new in Django 2.1), resulting in display of the entire password hash to those users. This may result in a vulnerability for sites with legacy user accounts using insecure hashes.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: from 2.1, before 2.1.2 (fixed in 2.1.2)

Published 2018-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.