{"id":"CVE-2024-7592","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-7592","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T05:58:35.557Z","title":"There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the 'http.cookies' standard library module.","description":"There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the\n'http.cookies' standard library module.\n\n\nWhen parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in\nthe cookie value, the parser would use an algorithm with quadratic\ncomplexity, resulting in excess CPU resources being used while parsing the\nvalue.","published":"2024-08-19T19:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:20:31.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cna@python.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-400","CWE-1333"],"affected":["python/python"],"epss":{"score":0.02303,"percentile":0.83233,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/391e5626e3ee5af267b97e37abc7475732e67621","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/44e458357fca05ca0ae2658d62c8c595b048b5ef","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a77ab24427a18bff817025adb03ca920dc3f1a06","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b2f11ca7667e4d57c71c1c88b255115f16042d9a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d4ac921a4b081f7f996a5d2b101684b67ba0ed7f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d662e2db2605515a767f88ad48096b8ac623c774","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"cna@python.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0006/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7592","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}