🛡️ CVE-2024-7592 — libpython

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-11-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libpython
python
python-min

References

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