Vulnerability CVE-2007-5712
Published: 2007-10-30   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The internationalization (i18n) framework in Django 0.91, 0.95, 0.95.1, and 0.96, and as used in other products such as PyLucid, when the USE_I18N option and the i18n component are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many HTTP requests with large Accept-Language headers.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Django project -> Django 

 References:
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640
http://secunia.com/advisories/27435
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00257.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00243.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38143
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3661
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3660
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26227
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=749199
http://secunia.com/advisories/31961
http://secunia.com/advisories/27597
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