Summary
The host is running Django and is prone to Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause a Denial of Service due to high CPU consumption via specially crafted email addresses or URLs.
Impact Level: System/Application
Solution
Upgrade to Django version 1.0.4 or 1.1.1 or later.
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Insight
The flaw is due to an error within the regular expressions used for validation of the 'EmailField' or 'URLField' form fields in Django's forms library.
Affected
Django version prior to 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.1
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-3695 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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