CVE-2025-58186: medium-severity vulnerability in Go standard library net/http
Lack of limit when parsing cookies can cause memory exhaustion in net/http
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.6%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Go standard library · net/httpRelated CVEs — Go standard library net/http
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CVE-2023-45288HIGHHTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/httpEPSS 89.5%CVE-2022-41717—Excessive memory growth in net/http and golang.org/x/net/http2EPSS 6.1%CVE-2022-41723HIGHDenial of service via crafted HTTP/2 stream in net/http and golang.org/x/netEPSS 4.6%CVE-2023-39325—HTTP/2 rapid reset can cause excessive work in net/httpEPSS 3.8%CVE-2026-39821CRITICALInvoking failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels in golang.org/x/net/idnaEPSS 1.8%CVE-2022-1705MEDIUMImproper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding headers in net/httpEPSS 1.5%