SB2024090916 - Denial of service in Python when parsing cookies
Published: September 9, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024090916
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7592)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the 'http.cookies' standard library module when parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in the cookie value. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123067
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/391e5626e3ee5af267b97e37abc7475732e67621
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc3eaef98cd94d6cb6cb0f44bd1c903d04f33b1
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a77ab24427a18bff817025adb03ca920dc3f1a06
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b2f11ca7667e4d57c71c1c88b255115f16042d9a
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d4ac921a4b081f7f996a5d2b101684b67ba0ed7f
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d662e2db2605515a767f88ad48096b8ac623c774