Resource exhaustion in Apple Macos

CVE-2022-32205

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 t…

EPSS: 0.269 (97.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-32205?
CVE-2022-32205 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Macos, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-07-07.
How severe is CVE-2022-32205?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-32205 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.