SB2018100210 - Insufficiently protected credentials in Django

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Insufficiently protected credentials (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16984)

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to gain access to sensitive information.

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.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041749
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0009/
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/oct/01/security-release/