# Django Potential account hijack via password reset form

Advisory record · `GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6` · `CVE-2019-19844` · `PYSEC-2019-16`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.8 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+, CVSS 7+ and EPSS
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-640](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/640.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-640](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-640.md)
- **Published:** 16 Jan 2020
- **Updated:** 20 Sept 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 16 Jan 2020, 22:35 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
- CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.54 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `django` (PyPI): affected `<1.11.27 || >=2.0, <2.2.9 || >=3.0, <3.0.1`; fixed in `1.11.27`, `2.2.9`, `3.0.1`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.8 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.54, the 98th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 16 Jan 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6)
- [OSV: GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19844>
- <https://github.com/django/django/commit/302a4ff1e8b1c798aab97673909c7a3dfda42c26>
- <https://github.com/django/django/commit/4d334bea06cac63dc1272abcec545b85136cca0e>
- <https://github.com/django/django/commit/5b1fbcef7a8bec991ebe7b2a18b5d5a95d72cb70>
- <https://github.com/django/django/commit/f4cff43bf921fcea6a29b726eb66767f67753fa2>
- <https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases>
- <https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4598>
- <https://usn.ubuntu.com/4224-1>
- <https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200110-0003>
- <https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17>
- <https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/9>
- <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HCM2DPUI7TOZWN4A6JFQFUVQ2XGE7GUD>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-vfq6-hq5r-27r6>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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