Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-12
=========================================
Severity: Medium
Date    : 2016-10-21
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-7401
Package : python2-django
Type    : cross-site request forgery
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
======
The package python2-django before version 1.10.1-1 is vulnerable to
cross-site request forgery.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 1.10.1-1.

# pacman -Syu "python2-django>=1.10.1-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.10.1.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
Sergey Bobrov found a vulnerability where an interaction between
Google Analytics and Django's cookie parsing could allow an attacker to
set arbitrary cookies leading to a bypass of CSRF protection.

Impact
=====
A remote attacker is able to perform cross-site request forgery by
bypassing the protection under certain circumstances.

References
=========
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/sep/26/security-releases/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7401

ArchLinux: 201610-12: python2-django: cross-site request forgery

October 21, 2016

Summary

Sergey Bobrov found a vulnerability where an interaction between Google Analytics and Django's cookie parsing could allow an attacker to set arbitrary cookies leading to a bypass of CSRF protection.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.10.1-1. # pacman -Syu "python2-django>=1.10.1-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.10.1.

References

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/sep/26/security-releases/ https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7401

Severity
Package : python2-django
Type : cross-site request forgery
Remote : Yes
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Workaround

None.

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