CVE-2016-2513
The password hasher in contrib/auth/hashers.py in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack involving login requests.
02 Description
The password hasher in contrib/auth/hashers.py in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack involving login requests.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 3.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-04-08 15:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-02-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f0468dbc3e174ec9686705c3f9d221242a7bac73a991c8d70327a4ed6f73375c
05 Affected products
06 References
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0506http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0506.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/67b46ba7016da2d259c1ecc7d666d11f5e1cfaab
- www.securitytracker.com1035152http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035152
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0504http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0504.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3544http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3544
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0502http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0502.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2915-3http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-3
- www.securityfocus.com83878http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83878
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2915-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-2
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0505http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0505.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2915-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2915-1
- www.djangoproject.comhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/mar/01/security-releases/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- python-django Fixed in 1.9.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- python-django Fixed in 1.9.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- python-django Fixed in 1.9.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- python-django Fixed in 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.12
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.