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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-x38m-486c-2wr9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434862

Description

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

 - The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in
 Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in
 certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store
 consumption) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2015-5964)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x38m-486c-2wr9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434862

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

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-2015-5964

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: 8/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5964

BID: 76440