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CVE-2024-7592 Code injection

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

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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.

CVSS v2-
CVSS v37.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/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
Affected Vendors

Python - (1)

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Code injection

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v25
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v37.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
MITRE CWE Top 25

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Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

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Cybersecurity Frameworks

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Compliance Impact

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Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

WASC-3 - Integer Overflows