🛡️ CVE-2024-7592 — libpython
Description
Quadratic complexity parsing cookies with backslashes
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 software
CVE-2024-7592 is recorded against 3 packages.
- libpython
- python
- python-min
Timeline and source
Published on 11 August 2025 and last revised on 6 November 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
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CVE-2024-7592 on other distributions
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Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| libpython | — | — |
| python | — | — |
| python-min | — | — |
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