fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-58186

fkie_cve-2025-58186

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-10-29 23:16

Modified

2025-10-29 23:16

Severity ?

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@golang.org	https://go.dev/cl/709855
	security@golang.org	https://go.dev/issue/75672
	security@golang.org	https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/4Emdl2iQ_bI
	security@golang.org	https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4012

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "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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  "lastModified": "2025-10-29T23:16:19.547",
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    },
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    },
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      "url": "https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4012"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "security@golang.org",
  "vulnStatus": "Received"
}

CVE-2025-58186 (GCVE-0-2025-58186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-29 22:10

Modified

2025-10-30 14:24

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://go.dev/issue/75672
	https://go.dev/cl/709855
	https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/4Emdl2iQ_bI
	https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4012

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Go standard library	net/http	Version: 0 ≤ Version: 1.25.0 ≤

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