CVE-2010-4535

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions prior to 1.1.3 Django versions 1.2.x prior to 1.2.4 Django versions 1.3.x prior to 1.3 beta 1

Description The issue concerns the password reset functionality in django.contrib.auth. It does not validate the length of a string representing a base36 timestamp. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a URL that specifies a large base36 integer.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.3, update to version 1.1.3 or later. For versions 1.2.x prior to 1.2.4, update to version 1.2.4 or later. For versions 1.3.x prior to 1.3 beta 1, update to version 1.3 beta 1 or later.