CVE-2025-58186 - Lack of limit when parsing cookies can cause memory exhaustion in net/http

CVE-2025-58186 - Lack of limit when parsing cookies can cause memory exhaustion in net/http

https://cvefeed.io/rssfeed/latest.atom / Thu, 10/30/2025 - 01:46
CVE ID : CVE-2025-58186
Published : Oct. 29, 2025, 11:16 p.m. | 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Description : 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.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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