Quadratic complexity parsing cookies with backslashes
There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the 'http.cookies' standard library module.
python3.9:3.9.21 security update
Released 2024-12-12 · Red Hat rating Moderate · View on Red Hat →
There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the 'http.cookies' standard library module.
The urllib.parse.urlsplit() and urlparse() functions improperly validated bracketed hosts (`[]`), allowing hosts that weren't IPv6 or IPvFuture.
A defect was discovered in the Python “ssl” module where there is a memory race condition with the ssl.SSLContext methods “cert_store_stats()” and “get_ca_certs()”.
A vulnerability has been found in the CPython `venv` module and CLI where path names provided when creating a virtual environment were not quoted properly, allowing the creator to inject commands into virtual environment…