CVE-2024-7592

There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the 'http.cookies' standard library module. When parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in the cookie value, the parser would use an algorithm with quadratic complexity, resulting in excess CPU resources being used while parsing the value.

• CWE-400
• CWE-1333

• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/391e5626e3ee5af267b97e37abc7475732e67621Patch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/44e458357fca05ca0ae2658d62c8c595b048b5efPatch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a77ab24427a18bff817025adb03ca920dc3f1a06Patch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b2f11ca7667e4d57c71c1c88b255115f16042d9aPatch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d4ac921a4b081f7f996a5d2b101684b67ba0ed7fPatch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d662e2db2605515a767f88ad48096b8ac623c774Patch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1Patch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/Mailing List
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0006/Third Party Advisory

Published

Aug 19, 2024

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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