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CVE-2007-5712

Date: October 30, 2007

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.

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (23)

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00257.html

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20091201070224/http://secunia.com/advisories/27435

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38143

Url: https://github.com/django/django/commit/412ed22502e11c50dbfee854627594f0e7e2c234

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26227

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20111224195100/http://secunia.com/advisories/27597

Url: https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2007-1.yaml

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20111229085535/http://secunia.com/advisories/31961

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20200228183657/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26227

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3661

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3660

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31961

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00243.html

Url: https://github.com/django/django

Url: https://github.com/django/django/commit/8bc36e726c9e8c75c681d3ad232df8e882aaac81

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5712

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640

Url: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=749199

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27597

Url: https://github.com/django/django/commit/7dd2dd08a79e388732ce00e2b5514f15bd6d0f6f

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27435

Url: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2007-5712

Severity Score

5.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.6
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2007-5712

Date: October 30, 2007

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