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HIGHCVSS 8.7EPSS 0.3%

CVE-2026-77354

CVE-2026-77354 updated by NVD

Published
2026-08-21
Modified
2026-09-11
EPSS percentile
23%
Sources
github-advisory, nvd

Summary

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.124.0 until 0.142.0, openapi3filter.sliceMapToSlice in openapi3filter/req_resp_decoder.go converts attacker-controlled sparse indexes from a deepObject query parameter into a dense slice by allocating entries from zero through the largest supplied index, after which buildResObj creates another slice of the same length. This allocation occurs before schema validation, so maxItems does not prevent it. An unauthenticated client can send a small query such as param[items][50000000]=x to an endpoint whose deepObject schema contains an array, forcing multi-gigabyte heap allocation and causing an OOM kill or restart loop. Other request-body encodings and styled parameters that do not produce bracketed integer indexes are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.142.0.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffected versionsFixed versions
Gogithub.com/getkin/kin-openapi0.142.0

Remediation: Upgrade to 0.142.0 or later.

References

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EPSS scores provided by the FIRST.org Exploit Prediction Scoring System.