CVE-2018-6188

Publication date 4 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-django 17.10 artful
Fixed 1:1.11.4-1ubuntu1.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

ratliff

Upstream notes that 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10 are unaffected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3559-1
    • Django vulnerabilities
    • 7 February 2018

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