UBUNTU-CVE-2024-7592

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2024-7592

    Published: 19 Aug 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2024-7592

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-7592, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7592, https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123075, https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/HXJAAAALNUNGCQUS2W7WR6GFIZIHFOOK/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7015-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7015-2

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python2.7

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python2.7?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm20

    Affected versions

    2.7.5-8ubuntu3
    2.7.5-8ubuntu4
    2.7.6-2
    2.7.6-2ubuntu1
    2.7.6-3
    2.7.6-3ubuntu1
    2.7.6-4
    2.7.6-4ubuntu1
    2.7.6-5
    2.7.6-7
    2.7.6-8
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.3
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.4
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.5
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm2
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm3
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm5
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm6
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm7
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm8
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm9
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm10
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm11
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm12
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm13
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm14
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm15
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm16
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm17
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm18

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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