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CVE-2015-3982

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-3982 describes a session hijacking vulnerability in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.2, specifically affecting the cached_db backend. An attacker can exploit a flaw in the session.flush function, which improperly handles an empty string in the session key, to hijack user sessions. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows for partial integrity impact with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0175 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.8.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-6wgp-fwfm-mxp3medium

Django allows user sessions hijacking via an empty string in the session key

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-3982Moderate

django: incorrect session flushing in the cached_db backend

May 20, 2015

References

djangoproject.com / weblog/2015/may/20/security-release
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/74960