Ubuntu 4224-1: Django Hijacking Risk Through Password Resets

ubuntu

December 18, 2019

Django accounts could be hijacked through password reset requests.

Summary

Django accounts could be hijacked through password reset requests.

Software Description:

- python-django: High-level Python web development framework

Details:

Simon Charette discovered that the password reset functionality in

Django used a Unicode case insensitive query to retrieve accounts

associated with an email address. An attacker could possibly use this

to obtain password reset tokens and hijack accounts.

Topics Covered

security advisory account hijacking security issue software update Ubuntu password reset Django

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10:
  python-django                   1:1.11.22-1ubuntu1.1
  python3-django                  1:1.11.22-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 19.04:
  python-django                   1:1.11.20-1ubuntu0.3
  python3-django                  1:1.11.20-1ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  python-django                   1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.6
  python3-django                  1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.6

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  python-django                   1.8.7-1ubuntu5.11
  python3-django                  1.8.7-1ubuntu5.11

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.