CVE-2024-7592

Public on 2024-08-19
Modified on 2024-08-21
Description

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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python 2025-03-25 ALAS2-2025-2797
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python3 2025-02-25 ALAS2-2025-2754
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.11 2025-02-05 ALAS2023-2025-829
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.9 2024-12-12 ALAS2023-2024-790
Amazon Linux 2 - Python3.8 Extra python38 2024-11-13 ALAS2PYTHON3.8-2024-016

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 2.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H