vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-7592

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 19, 2024
Added
Jan 29, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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