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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Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:30:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| 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. | |
| Title | Lack of limit when parsing cookies can cause memory exhaustion in net/http | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Go
Published:
Updated: 2025-10-29T22:10:13.912Z
Reserved: 2025-08-27T14:50:58.691Z
Link: CVE-2025-58186
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Status : Received
Published: 2025-10-29T23:16:19.547
Modified: 2025-10-29T23:16:19.547
Link: CVE-2025-58186
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