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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-7924818
  • published9 Sept 2024
  • disclosed19 Aug 2024
  • creditSeokchan Yoon

Introduced: 19 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-7592  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

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