CVE-2014-0482 Information

Description

The contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware middleware in Django before 1.4.14 1.5.x before 1.5.9 1.6.x before 1.6.6 and 1.7 before release candidate 3 when using the contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend backend allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via vectors related to the REMOTE_USER header.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00023.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59782 http://secunia.com/advisories/61276 http://secunia.com/advisories/61281 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3010 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/aug/20/security/