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| author | Jake Howard <git@theorangeone.net> | 2025-11-19 16:52:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Jacob Walls <jacobtylerwalls@gmail.com> | 2026-02-03 08:24:15 -0500 |
| commit | 6dc23508f3395e1254c315084c7334ef81c4c09a (patch) | |
| tree | 09f7c9548f83a3b0996b0acd4a0113834675e6e6 /docs | |
| parent | a28c3c739564ccc2aabc7b20211f54d838c7b582 (diff) | |
[4.2.x] Fixed CVE-2025-13473 -- Standardized timing of check_password() in mod_wsgi auth handler.
Refs CVE-2024-39329, #20760.
Thanks Stackered for the report, and Jacob Walls and Markus Holtermann
for the reviews.
Co-authored-by: Natalia <124304+nessita@users.noreply.github.com>
Backport of 3eb814e02a4c336866d4189fa0c24fd1875863ed from main.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/4.2.28.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/4.2.28.txt b/docs/releases/4.2.28.txt index 8c6d4a2a1d..9f6d5cb152 100644 --- a/docs/releases/4.2.28.txt +++ b/docs/releases/4.2.28.txt @@ -7,3 +7,13 @@ Django 4.2.28 release notes Django 4.2.28 fixes three security issues with severity "high", two security issues with severity "moderate", and one security issue with severity "low" in 4.2.27. + +CVE-2025-13473: Username enumeration through timing difference in mod_wsgi authentication handler +================================================================================================= + +The ``django.contrib.auth.handlers.modwsgi.check_password()`` function for +:doc:`authentication via mod_wsgi</howto/deployment/wsgi/apache-auth>` +allowed remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack. + +This issue has severity "low" according to the :ref:`Django security policy +<security-disclosure>`. |