QID 983111

QID 983111: Python (pip) Security Update for django-user-sessions (GHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5g)

Security update has been released for django-user-sessions to fix the vulnerability.

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The views provided by django-user-sessions allow users to terminate specific sessions. The session key is used to identify sessions, and thus included in the rendered HTML. In itself this is not a problem. However if the website has an XSS vulnerability, the session key could be extracted by the attacker and a session takeover could happen.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.

Solution

Patch is under way.Workaround:
Remove the session_key from the template.

Vendor References

GHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5g - github.com/advisories/GHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5g

CVEs related to QID 983111

CVE-2020-5224 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
GHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5g	django-user-sessions		github.com/advisories/GHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5g

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