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Django Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2011-4137 - Vulnerability Database
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Django Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2011-4137

Medium
Reference: CVE-2011-4137
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4137
Title: Django Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

The verify_exists functionality in the URLField implementation in Django before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.1 relies on Python libraries that attempt access to an arbitrary URL with no timeout which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a URL associated with (1) a slow response (2) a completed TCP connection with no application data sent or (3) a large amount of application data a related issue to CVE-2011-1521.