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CVE-2007-5712

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5712 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the internationalization (i18n) framework in Django versions 0.91 through 0.96, and other products like PyLucid, when the i18n component is enabled. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending numerous HTTP requests with excessively large Accept-Language headers, leading to high memory consumption. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.91CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.95CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.95.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.95.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.96CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:django_project:django:0.96:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0180 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 0.95.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 0.96.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: DjangoFixed in: 0.91.1

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-9v8h-57gv-qch6high

Django vulnerable to Denial of Service via i18n middleware component

May 1, 2022
redhatCVE-2007-5712

Django 0.96 i18n DoS

References

secunia.com / advisories/27435
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27597
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31961
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/38143
sourceforge.net / forum/forum.php
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00243.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00257.html
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1640
Patch
djangoproject.com / weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/26227
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3660
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3661
Vendor Advisory