CVE-2024-7592CWE-400

Quadratic complexity parsing cookies with backslashes

High · published August 19, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
83.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02303 · 83.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2024-08-19T19:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 19:06Z
    Quadratic complexity parsing cookies with backslashes
    cvelistv5