PT-2015-6370 · Django Software Foundation · Django

Sam Cooke · Published 2015-06-02 · Updated 2026-01-03 · CVE-2015-3982

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions 1.8.0 through 1.8.1

Description The issue is related to the session.flush function in the cached db backend, which does not properly flush the session. This allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key.

Recommendations For Django versions 1.8.0 through 1.8.1, update to version 1.8.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Session Fixation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-384

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3982

GHSA-6WGP-FWFM-MXP3

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0077-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10066-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11205-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13887-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14208-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10005-1

PYSEC-2015-19

Affected Products

Django

References · 93

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:13887-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/may/20/security-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2015-19 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2023:0077-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6wgp-fwfm-mxp3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3982 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10005-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10066-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14208-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11205-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/django/django · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/31cb25adecba930bdeee4556709f5a1c42d88fd6 · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-19.yaml · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13254 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64459 · Note