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medium 4.9

CVE-2024-32879 json

social-auth-app-django Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability

published 2y ago modified 2mo ago also EUVD-2024-1061 , GHSA-2gr8-3wc7-xhj3 , PYSEC-2026-1931

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Python Social Auth is a social authentication/registration mechanism. Prior to version 5.4.1, due to default case-insensitive collation in MySQL or MariaDB databases, third-party authentication user IDs are not case-sensitive and could cause different IDs to match. This issue has been addressed by a fix released in version 5.4.1. An immediate workaround would be to change collation of the affected field.

Patch / fix

  • pypi social-auth-app-django 5.4.1
  • python-social-auth social-app-django 5.4.1
  • social-auth-app-django Debian 14, Debian 13 5.4.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-32879

  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.4, ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 1.4.8-1.el8ap
  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.4, ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 1.4.8-1.el9ap
  • python-idna ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 3.7-1.el9ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.4, ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 1.4.8-1.el8ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.4, ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 1.4.8-1.el9ap
  • python-black ansible automation platform inside 2.4, ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 22.8.0-2.el9ap
  • python3-idna ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 3.7-1.el9ap
  • python-jinja2 ansible automation platform inside 2.4, ansible automation platform developer 2.4, ansible automation platform 2.4 3.1.4-1.el9ap

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:3781RHSA-2024:6428

  • python-social-auth-app-django openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.9.0-1.2
  • python-social-auth-app-django openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.4.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12043-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14036-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-32879 updated cvss 4.9

python-social-auth: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in social-auth-app-django

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 ansible-tower
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 python-social-auth-app-django
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 python39-social-auth-app-django 5.4.1-1.el8ap, python3x-social-auth-app-django 5.4.1-1.el8ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.5.10-1.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 python-social-auth-app-django 5.4.1-1.el9ap, python3-social-auth-app-django 5.4.1-1.el9ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.5.10-1.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6428
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 receptor 1.4.8-1.el8ap, python39-idna 3.7-1.el8ap, python3x-idna 3.7-1.el8ap, receptorctl 1.4.8-1.el8ap, ansible-core 2.15.11-1.el8ap, ansible-test 2.15.11-1.el8ap, +54 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.4.8-1.el9ap, python-idna 3.7-1.el9ap, python3-idna 3.7-1.el9ap, receptorctl 1.4.8-1.el9ap, python-zipp 3.19.2-1.el9ap, python-black 22.8.0-2.el9ap, +55 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi social-auth-app-django
<5.4.1
5.4.1

Affected products

  • python-social-auth social-app-django

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
  • CWE-303 Incorrect Implementation of Authentication Algorithm

References

Sources

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The maintainers of python-social-auth/social-app-django published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.