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CVE-2014-0473

The caching framework in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 reuses a cached CSRF token for all anonymous users, which allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protections by reading the CSRF cookie for anonymous users.

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Severity

N/A

EPSS

Probability of exploitation (next 30 days): 0.0030 (0.3%)
Percentile: 53.1%
EPSS: 2026-05-06

Affects

djangoproject:djangocanonical:ubuntu_linux

Technical description

The caching framework in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 reuses a cached CSRF token for all anonymous users, which allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protections by reading the CSRF cookie for anonymous users.

Published: 4/23/2014, 3:55:03 PM
Last modified: 5/6/2026, 10:30:45 PM

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