CVE-2025-58186

Public on 2025-10-13
Modified on 2025-10-30
Description
net/http: lack of limit when parsing cookies can cause memory exhaustion

Despite HTTP headers having a default limit of 1 MB, the number of cookies that can be parsed did 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.

net/http now limits the number of cookies accepted to 3000, which can be adjusted using the httpcookiemaxnum GODEBUG option.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core amazon-cloudwatch-agent Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 amazon-cloudwatch-agent Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra amazon-ecr-credential-helper Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra amazon-ecr-credential-helper Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 amazon-ecr-credential-helper Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core amazon-ssm-agent Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 amazon-ssm-agent Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core cni-plugins Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 cni-plugins Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra containerd Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra containerd Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra containerd Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 containerd Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core cri-tools Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra docker Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra docker Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra docker Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 docker Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra ecs-init Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 ecs-init Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golang 2025-10-27 ALAS2-2025-3042 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 golang 2025-10-27 ALAS2023-2025-1239 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golang-github-cpuguy83-go-md2man Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golang-github-godbus-dbus Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golang-github-gorilla-context Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golang-github-kr-pty Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golang-github-syndtr-gocapability Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golist Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 libcap Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core nerdctl Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 nerdctl Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra oci-add-hooks Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra oci-add-hooks Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra oci-add-hooks Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 oci-add-hooks Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core rclone Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra runc Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra runc Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra runc Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 runc Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra runfinch-finch Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 runfinch-finch Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra soci-snapshotter Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 soci-snapshotter Pending Fix

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L