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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-6188)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-6188)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of
    the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site
    scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with
    "DEBUG = True" (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings. (CVE-2017-12794)

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-6188)

  - An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. The
    django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic
    backtracking vulnerabilities in two regular expressions (only one regular expression for Django 1.8.x).
    The urlize() function is used to implement the urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, which were thus
    vulnerable. (CVE-2018-7536)

  - An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. If
    django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were
    extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular
    expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and
    truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable. (CVE-2018-7537)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2927 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructure.
    It allows for provisioning, remote management, and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single     centralized tool.

    Security Fix(es):

    * jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525)     (CVE-2017-15095)

    * hornetq: XXE/SSRF in XPath selector (CVE-2015-3208)

    * bouncycastle: Information disclosure in GCMBlockCipher (CVE-2015-6644)

    * bouncycastle: DSA does not fully validate ASN.1 encoding during signature verification allowing for     injection of unsigned data (CVE-2016-1000338)

    * bouncycastle: Information leak in AESFastEngine class (CVE-2016-1000339)

    * bouncycastle: Information exposure in DSA signature generation via timing attack (CVE-2016-1000341)

    * bouncycastle: ECDSA improper validation of ASN.1 encoding of signature (CVE-2016-1000342)

    * bouncycastle: DHIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode (CVE-2016-1000344)

    * bouncycastle: DHIES/ECIES CBC modes are vulnerable to padding oracle attack (CVE-2016-1000345)

    * bouncycastle: Other party DH public keys are not fully validated (CVE-2016-1000346)

    * bouncycastle: ECIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode (CVE-2016-1000352)

    * logback: Serialization vulnerability in SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver (CVE-2017-5929)

    * python-django: Open redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied numeric redirect URLs     (CVE-2017-7233)

    * hibernate-validator: Privilege escalation when running under the security manager (CVE-2017-7536)

    * puppet: Environment leakage in puppet-agent (CVE-2017-10690)

    * Satellite 6: XSS in discovery rule filter autocomplete functionality (CVE-2017-12175)

    * foreman: Stored XSS in fact name or value (CVE-2017-15100)

    * pulp: sensitive credentials revealed through the API (CVE-2018-1090)

    * foreman: SQL injection due to improper handling of the widget id parameter (CVE-2018-1096)

    * foreman: Ovirt admin password exposed by foreman API (CVE-2018-1097)

    * django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and 'urlizetrunc' (CVE-2018-7536)

    * django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'truncatechars_html' and     'truncatewords_html' (CVE-2018-7537)

    * guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)

    * bouncycastle: Carry propagation bug in math.raw.Nat??? class (CVE-2016-1000340)

    * bouncycastle: DSA key pair generator generates a weak private key by default (CVE-2016-1000343)

    * puppet: Unpacking of tarballs in tar/mini.rb can create files with insecure permissions (CVE-2017-10689)

    * bouncycastle: BKS-V1 keystore files vulnerable to trivial hash collisions (CVE-2018-5382)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-15095; and the Django project for     reporting CVE-2017-7233, CVE-2018-7536, and CVE-2018-7537. The CVE-2017-7536 issue was discovered by     Gunnar Morling (Red Hat); and the CVE-2018-1096 issue was discovered by Martin Povolny (Red Hat). Red Hat     would also like to thank David Jorm (IIX Product Security) for reporting CVE-2015-3208.

    Additional Changes:

    This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes is     available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

update to 1.11.10, fix for CVE-2018-6188: Information leakage in AuthenticationForm

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2017-12794, CVE-2018-6188).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Django release notes :

CVE-2018-6188: Information leakage in AuthenticationForm

A regression in Django 1.11.8 made AuthenticationForm run its confirm_login_allowed() method even if an incorrect password is entered. This can leak information about a user, depending on what messages confirm_login_allowed() raises. If confirm_login_allowed() isn't overridden, an attacker enter an arbitrary username and see if that user has been set to is_active=False. If confirm_login_allowed() is overridden, more sensitive details could be leaked.

This issue is fixed with the caveat that AuthenticationForm can no longer raise the 'This account is inactive.' error if the authentication backend rejects inactive users (the default authentication backend, ModelBackend, has done that since Django 1.10). This issue will be revisited for Django 2.1 as a fix to address the caveat will likely be too invasive for inclusion in older versions.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
423195	SCA: security update for Django, django (GHSA-rf4j-j272-fj86)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
423195	SCA: security update for Django, django (GHSA-rf4j-j272-fj86)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
222660	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-6188	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
406639	Alpine: multiple py3-django packages: security update to 1.11.10-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
406639	Alpine: multiple py3-django packages: security update to 1.11.10-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
406601	Alpine: py-django: security update to 1.11.11-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
406601	Alpine: py-django: security update to 1.11.11-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
406600	Alpine: py-django: security update to 1.11.10-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
406600	Alpine: py-django: security update to 1.11.10-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
118185	RHEL 7 : Satellite 6.4 (RHSA-2018:2927)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
106822	Fedora 27 : python-django (2018-2c612c6d92)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
106675	Ubuntu 17.10 : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-3559-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
106599	FreeBSD : Django -- information leakage (d696473f-9f32-42c5-a106-bf4536fb1f74)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	high

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