ALPINE-CVE-2024-7592

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CVE-2024-7592
Published: 19 Aug 2024, 19:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:57

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Aug 2024, 19:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:57
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•python3

    < 3.10.15-r0 | < 3.11.10-r0 | < 3.11.10-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0

References (1)