CVE-2025-58186 (GCVE-0-2025-58186)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-29 22:10
Modified
2025-10-29 22:10
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
Despite HTTP headers having a default limit of 1MB, the number of cookies that can be parsed does not have a limit. By sending a lot of very small cookies such as "a=;", an attacker can make an HTTP server allocate a large amount of structs, causing large memory consumption.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library net/http Version: 0   ≤
Version: 1.25.0   ≤
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