User email enumeration via unhandled mail exceptions
Published Oct 8, 2024 · Updated Mar 17, 2025
Observable discrepancy in Django 4.2 before 4.2.16, 5.0 before 5.0.9, and 5.1 before 5.1.1 allows remote attackers to enumerate user emails. PasswordResetForm.send_mail lets email-backend exceptions escape only for registered addresses, producing error responses while unknown addresses complete normally. Exploitation requires an exposed password-reset view and consistently failing email delivery; the bounded consequence is disclosure of registered email addresses.
Summary
What happened
Observable discrepancy in Django 4.2 before 4.2.16, 5.0 before 5.0.9, and 5.1 before 5.1.1 allows remote attackers to enumerate user emails. PasswordResetForm.send_mail lets email-backend exceptions escape only for registered addresses, producing error responses while unknown addresses complete normally. Exploitation requires an exposed password-reset view and consistently failing email delivery; the bounded consequence is disclosure of registered email addresses.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-45231
- Published
- Oct 8, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Django Software Foundation
- Product
- Django
- Classifications
- CWE-203, T1589.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 8, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.2 <4.2.16
- Affected versionversion=5.0 <5.0.9
- Affected versionversion=5.1 <5.1.1
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