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CVE-2019-19844

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—💥 Exploit

Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. (One mitigation in the new releases is to send password reset tokens only to the registered user email address.)

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Affected technologies (2)

Canonical — Ubuntu LinuxDjangoproject — Django

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