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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2v)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433530

Description

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

 - contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.4, 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x
 before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session
 store consumption or session record removal) via a large number of requests to contrib.auth.views.logout,
 which triggers the creation of an empty session record. (CVE-2015-5963)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433530

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5963

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5963

BID: 76428

cwe: CWE-770