CVE-2018-16984

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 2.1 before 2.1.2, in which unprivileged users can read the password hashes of arbitrary accounts. The read-only password widget used by the Django Admin to display an obfuscated password hash was bypassed if a user has only the "view" permission (new in Django 2.1), resulting in display of the entire password hash to those users. This may result in a vulnerability for sites with legacy user accounts using insecure hashes.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16984
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/bf39978a53f117ca02e9a0c78b76664a41a54745
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6mx3-3vqg-hpp2
• https://github.com/django/django
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2018-3.yaml
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0009
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200517123022/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041749
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/oct/01/security-release
• https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201810-5
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16984.html
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/oct/01/security-release/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041749
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0009/
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16984