A malicious server can serve excessive amounts of `Set-Cookie:` headers in a HTTP response to curl and curl < 7.84.0 stores all of them. A sufficiently large amount of (big) cookies make subsequent HTTP requests to this, or other servers to which the cookies match, create requests that become larger than the threshold that curl uses internally to avoid sending crazy large requests (1048576 bytes) and instead returns an error.This denial state might remain for as long as the same cookies are kept, match and haven't expired. Due to cookie matching rules, a server on `foo.example.com` can set cookies that also would match for `bar.example.com`, making it it possible for a "sister server" to effectively cause a denial of service for a sibling site on the same second level domain using this method.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-333517.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-333517.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.3 · haxx, fedoraproject, debianNVD modified 2026-10-14 17:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 20
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:clustered_data_ontap:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:element_software:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:hci_management_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:solidfire:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_sc622-2c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_sc626-2c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_sc632-2c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_sc636-2c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_sc642-2c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_sc646-2c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:9.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 23
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-333517.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1569946 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BEV6BR4MTI3CEWK2YU2HQZUW5FAS3FEY/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220915-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5197 Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-333517.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1569946 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BEV6BR4MTI3CEWK2YU2HQZUW5FAS3FEY/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220915-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5197 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-333517.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-419740.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-558014.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-942865.html