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CVE-2024-7592

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CVE-2024-7592

Published: Aug 19, 2024

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Python Software Foundation

CPython

affected
0 - < 3.8.20
affected
3.9.0 - < 3.9.20
affected
3.10.0 - < 3.10.15
affected
3.11.0 - < 3.11.10
affected
3.12.0 - < 3.12.6

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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