CVE-2018-6188
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.77%Django vulnerable to information leakage in AuthenticationForm
Published: 10/3/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm in Django 2.0 before 2.0.2, and 1.11.8 and 1.11.9, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by leveraging data exposure from the confirm_login_allowed() method, as demonstrated by discovering whether a user account is inactive.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/py3-djangofrom 0, < 1.11.10-r0
- Alpine/py-djangofrom 0, < 1.11.10-r0
- Debian/python-djangofrom 0, < 1:1.11.10-1
- PyPI/django>= 2.0a1, < 2.0.2
- PyPI/django>= 2.0, < 2.0.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rf4j-j272-fj86
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6188
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6188
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6188
- ADVISORYhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/feb/01/security-releases/
- PATCHhttps://github.com/django/django
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/57b95fedad5e0b83fc9c81466b7d1751c6427aae
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/c37bb28677295f6edda61d8ac461014ef0d3aeb2
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2018-4.yaml
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200517143909/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040422
- WEBhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/feb/01/security-releases
- WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040422