Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python/cpython  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHONCPYTHON-7716004
  • published20 Aug 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?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

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.

Note:

This is a duplicate of https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-7924818