Resource exhaustion in Python

CVE-2024-7592

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.023 (81.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.