CVE-2009-3695

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the forms library in Django 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted (1) EmailField (email address) or (2) URLField (URL) that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the forms library in Django 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted (1) EmailField (email address) or (2) URLField (URL) that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Django Project Django

First reported 15 years ago

2009-10-13 10:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-17 01:31:00

Affected Software

Django Project Django 1.0

1.0

Django Project Django 1.1

1.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550457

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/15df9e45118dfc51/

36948

Vendor Advisory

36968

Vendor Advisory

DSA-1905

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20091013 Re: Duplicate CVE assignment notification [was: CVE id request: django]

36655

Patch

ADV-2009-2871

Patch, Vendor Advisory

django-emailfield-urlfield-dos(53727)

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