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CVE-2024-7592 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/391e5626e3ee5af267b97e37abc7475732e67621
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://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067 Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075 Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/ Mailing List 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Python Software Foundation  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-7592
NVD Published Date:
08/19/2024
NVD Last Modified:
09/04/2024
Source:
Python Software Foundation