The host is installed with Python before before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.2.x before 3.2.3 or 3.x through 3.1.4 and is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to handle crafted XML-RPC POST. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to crash the service.