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CVE-2007-5712

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
30/10/2007
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.60 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
2.60
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.95.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.96:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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