Security advisory

{
  "id": "cb4406bf1411e9d74ec434cfd956939d1ce5b39f57a284485f07f12b1335f88c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6188",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-6188",
    "summary": "django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm in Django 2.0 before 2.0.2, and 1.11.8 and 1.11.9, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by leveraging data exposure from the confirm_login_allowed() method, as demonstrated by discovering whether a user account is inactive.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-6188",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-6188",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-6188",
        "GHSA-rf4j-j272-fj86",
        "PYSEC-2018-4"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/django/django",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "dfe7b85ed7e0c46cb59f545a4eefa9c3fd629f7d"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "7cc155a04ce9579de3cdca59db9a4de11dc5eab9"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.11.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.11.8"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.11.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:1.11.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.11.9"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.11.9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.0.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.11.8",
            "1.11.9",
            "2.0",
            "2.0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6188.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:44.344053738Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/",
        "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/feb/01/security-releases/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "17.10"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "17.10"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-6188",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435847,
  "published_at": "2018-02-05T03:29:00.267+00:00"
}