#26158: cookie parsing fails with python 3.x if request contains unnamed cookie
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Reporter: Treverix | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: HTTP handling | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: cookie python3 | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by sergei-maertens):
As mentioned in the upstream ticket, blindly splitting on `;` could be a
problem because an attacker might sent semicolons inside the cookie
itself. Example from upstream: `name="some;value"`.
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