# CVE-2024-7592: Quadratic complexity parsing cookies with backslashes

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.8.20, 3.9.20, 3.10.15, 3.11.10, 3.12.6, and 1 more
- Published: 2024-08-19 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- Python Software Foundation CPython: fixed in 3.8.20; from 3.9.0, fixed in 3.9.20; from 3.10.0, fixed in 3.10.15; from 3.11.0, fixed in 3.11.10; from 3.12.0, fixed in 3.12.6; from 3.13.0a1, fixed in 3.13.0rc2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Python Software Foundation CPython, upgrade to a fixed version (3.8.20, 3.9.20, 3.10.15, 3.11.10, 3.12.6) per the references below.
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## 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
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/44e458357fca05ca0ae2658d62c8c595b048b5ef

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