PYSEC-2015-19

The session.flush function in the cacheddb backend in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.2 does not properly flush the session, which allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key...

FreeBSD : django -- Fixed session flushing in the cached_db backend (48504af7-07ad-11e5-879c-00e0814cab4e)

The Django project reports : A change to session.flush in the cacheddb session backend in Django 1.8 mistakenly sets the session key to an empty string rather than None. An empty string is treated as a valid session key and the session cookie is set accordingly. Any users with an empty string in...

CVE-2015-3982

The session.flush function in the cacheddb backend in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.2 does not properly flush the session, which allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key...