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| author | Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> | 2016-10-24 15:22:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-11-01 09:30:57 -0400 |
| commit | da7910d4834726eca596af0a830762fa5fb2dfd9 (patch) | |
| tree | de4ee58ef352c19ee5efe5495ef629e0c1aee5cd /docs/ref | |
| parent | 9e9c81d3c21074d0761ebe5264bbc35cdf4e50f7 (diff) | |
Fixed CVE-2016-9013 -- Generated a random database user password when running tests on Oracle.
This is a security fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/settings.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt index a5d8205ba4..494988cc62 100644 --- a/docs/ref/settings.txt +++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt @@ -794,7 +794,12 @@ Default: ``None`` This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used -when running tests. If not provided, Django will use a hardcoded default value. +when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. + +.. versionchanged:: 1.11 + + Older versions used a hardcoded default password. This was also changed + in 1.10.3, 1.9.11, and 1.8.16 to fix possible security implications. .. setting:: TEST_TBLSPACE |