CVE-2016-7401
The cookie parsing code in Django before 1.8.15 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10, when used on a site with Google Analytics, allows remote attackers to bypass an intended CSRF protection mechanism by setting
02 Description
The cookie parsing code in Django before 1.8.15 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10, when used on a site with Google Analytics, allows remote attackers to bypass an intended CSRF protection mechanism by setting
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
- 5.70% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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
- 2016-10-03 18:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 01:57Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-09-09
- 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
- c34514f103ec2b1f513d5ce07dce7157f9dc25df5b976350a7bfe51a2caba0ab
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-3678http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3678
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2040http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2040.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2043http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2043.html
- www.securitytracker.com1036899http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036899
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2041http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2041.html
- www.djangoproject.comhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/sep/26/security-releases/
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2042http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2042.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-3089-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3089-1
- www.securityfocus.com93182http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93182
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2038http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2038.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2039http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2039.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- python-django Fixed in 1.10.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- python-django Fixed in 1:1.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- python-django Fixed in 1:1.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- python-django Fixed in 1:1.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- python-django Fixed in 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.15
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- python-django Fixed in 1.8.7-1ubuntu5.2
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.