Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-7592 - Unspecified vulnerability in Python
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/391e5626e3ee5af267b97e37abc7475732e67621
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a77ab24427a18bff817025adb03ca920dc3f1a06
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b2f11ca7667e4d57c71c1c88b255115f16042d9a
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d4ac921a4b081f7f996a5d2b101684b67ba0ed7f
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d662e2db2605515a767f88ad48096b8ac623c774