PT-2016-7619 · Django Software Foundation+2 · Django+2

Marti Raudsepp · Published 2016-11-01 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2016-9013

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions 1.8.x through 1.8.15 Django versions 1.9.x through 1.9.10 Django versions 1.10.x through 1.10.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain access to the database server by leveraging failure to manually specify a password in the database settings TEST dictionary. This is due to a hardcoded password being used for a temporary database user created when running tests with an Oracle database.

Recommendations For Django versions 1.8.x through 1.8.15, update to version 1.8.16 or later. For Django versions 1.9.x through 1.9.10, update to version 1.9.11 or later. For Django versions 1.10.x through 1.10.2, update to version 1.10.3 or later.

Fix

Using Hardcoded Credentials

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-798

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1227

CVE-2016-9013

DSA-3835-1

GHSA-MV8G-FHH6-6267

MGASA-2016-0368

PYSEC-2016-17

SUSE-SU-2018:0973-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1102-1

USN-3115-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Django

Ubuntu

References · 55

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0368 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9013 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9013 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0973-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9013 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0368.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9013 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QXDKJYHN74BWY3P7AR2UZDVJREQMRE6S · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9013 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mv8g-fhh6-6267 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/QXDKJYHN74BWY3P7AR2UZDVJREQMRE6S · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3835-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9013 · Security Note
• https://djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/nov/01/security-releases · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/OG5ROMUPS6C7BXELD3TAUUH7OBYV56WQ · Vendor Advisory