CVE-2024-7592

Severity

75%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

60%

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.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Overview

First reported 6 months ago

2024-08-19 19:15:00

Last updated 3 months ago

2024-11-21 09:51:00

Affected Software

Python

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/pull/123075

Issue Tracking, Patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/

Mailing List

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

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0006/

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