CVE-2024-7592

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-400: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0006/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html

References

• https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075
• https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067
• https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/391e5626e3ee5af267b97e37abc7475732e67621
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1
• 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/44e458357fca05ca0ae2658d62c8c595b048b5ef

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