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CVE-2015-5963

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5963 describes a Denial of Service vulnerability in Django versions 1.8.x, 1.7.x, and 1.4.x, where a remote attacker can deplete session storage or remove session records. This occurs by repeatedly requesting the logout view, which creates numerous empty session records. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0516 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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 (7)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.8.4
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.7.10
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 1.4.22
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-django-0:1.6.11-3.el6ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: python-django-0:1.6.11-3.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: python-django-0:1.6.11-3.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: python-django-0:1.8.4-1.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-pgxh-wfw4-jx2vmedium

Django denial of service via empty session record creation

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-5963Moderate

python-django: Denial-of-service possibility in logout() view by filling session store

Aug 18, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00026.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015:1876
djangoproject.com / weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3338
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/76428
securitytracker.com / id/1033318
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2720-1
Third Party Advisory