CVE-2024-7592 | Mend Vulnerability Database

Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-7592

CVE-2024-7592

Published:August 19, 2024

Updated:July 21, 2026

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.

Related Resources (17)

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a77ab24427a18bff817025adb03ca920dc3f1a06

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-7592

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-7592

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/44e458357fca05ca0ae2658d62c8c595b048b5ef

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b2f11ca7667e4d57c71c1c88b255115f16042d9a

https://github.com/python/cpython

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d662e2db2605515a767f88ad48096b8ac623c774

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7592