High
CVE-2024-7592 affecting package python-py 1.11.0-1
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- python-py
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-7592
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2024-7592 affecting package python-py 1.11.0-1
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 19 Aug 2024, 19:15 UTC
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.
osv:AZL-109674
python-py
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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