GitHub Advisory DatabaseGHSA-9V8H-57GV-QCH6Django vulnerable to Denial of Service via i18n middleware component
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
95.5%
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.
Affected configurations
References
sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=749199
www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640
www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38143
github.com/advisories/GHSA-9v8h-57gv-qch6
github.com/django/django/commit/412ed22502e11c50dbfee854627594f0e7e2c234
github.com/django/django/commit/7dd2dd08a79e388732ce00e2b5514f15bd6d0f6f
github.com/django/django/commit/8bc36e726c9e8c75c681d3ad232df8e882aaac81
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2007-1.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5712
web.archive.org/web/20091201070224/secunia.com/advisories/27435
web.archive.org/web/20111224195100/secunia.com/advisories/27597
web.archive.org/web/20111229085535/secunia.com/advisories/31961
web.archive.org/web/20200228183657/www.securityfocus.com/bid/26227
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00243.html
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00257.html
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
95.5%