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CVE-2024-7592
high
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.
References
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d662e2db2605515a767f88ad48096b8ac623c774
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d4ac921a4b081f7f996a5d2b101684b67ba0ed7f
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b2f11ca7667e4d57c71c1c88b255115f16042d9a
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a77ab24427a18bff817025adb03ca920dc3f1a06
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/391e5626e3ee5af267b97e37abc7475732e67621