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CVE-2024-7592
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-08-19T19:15:08.180 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:20:30.673

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 products

python — python

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