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CVE-2024-7592

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
19/08/2024
Last modified:
05/02/2025

Description

There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the<br /> &amp;#39;http.cookies&amp;#39; standard library module.<br /> <br /> <br /> When parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in<br /> the cookie value, the parser would use an algorithm with quadratic<br /> complexity, resulting in excess CPU resources being used while parsing the<br /> value.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.8.20 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.9.0 (including) 3.9.20 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.10.0 (including) 3.10.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.11.0 (including) 3.11.10 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.12.0 (including) 3.12.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:alpha0:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:alpha4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:alpha5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:alpha6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.13.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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