Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting python package, versions [3.8.0,3.8.20) [3.9.0,3.9.20) [3.10.0,3.10.15) [3.11.0,3.11.10) [3.12.0,3.12.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-7924818
  • published 9 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 19 Aug 2024
  • credit Seokchan Yoon

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 3.8.20, 3.9.20, 3.10.15, 3.11.10, 3.12.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') due to the http.cookies standard library module. An attacker can cause excessive CPU resource consumption by submitting specially crafted cookies containing backslashes for quoted characters.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None