PT-2009-5954 · Django Software Foundation · Django

Steven M. Christey · Published 2009-10-13 · Updated 2022-05-02 · CVE-2009-3695

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions 1.0 through 1.0.3 Django versions 1.1 through 1.1.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by providing a crafted input to either the EmailField (email address) or URLField (URL) that triggers excessive backtracking in a regular expression.

Recommendations For Django versions 1.0 through 1.0.3, update to version 1.0.4 or later. For Django versions 1.1 through 1.1.0, update to version 1.1.1 or later.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1333

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3695

DSA-1905-1

GHSA-P6M5-H7PP-V2X5

PYSEC-2009-4

Affected Products

Django

References · 23

• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1905 · Vendor Advisory
• http://djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3695 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3695 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36968 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2871 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/36655 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2009-4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3695 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-3695 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-p6m5-h7pp-v2x5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/django/django · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/594a28a9044120bed58671dde8a805c9e0f6c79a · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/e3e992e18b368fcd56aabafc1b5bf80a6e11b495 · Note