Alpine: Django: security update to 1.8-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401137

Description

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

- The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before
1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple
requests with unique session keys. (CVE-2015-5143)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=6593e2a6e499ca288ea2fc779517b1e0b4a5a73e

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=79b0aaea9ac5f1e44d437aa26cf01d4e3ab484a5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401137

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5143

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5143

BID: 75666