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There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the\n'http.cookies' standard library module.

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When parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in\nthe cookie value, the parser would use an algorithm with quadratic\ncomplexity, resulting in excess CPU resources being used while parsing the\nvalue.


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