CVE-2007-5712

high

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/31961

http://secunia.com/advisories/27597

http://secunia.com/advisories/27435

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-10-30

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01463