CVE-2025-58186

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.

  • Published Oct 29, 2025
  • CVSS 5.3 medium
  • 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

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CVE-2025-58186 at the National Vulnerability Database