7.5
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-100353
kin-openapi: Incomplete Fix for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5: Three Unpatched nil-Items Panic Paths in openapi3filter
Description

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.136.0 until 0.149.0, three openapi3filter decoder paths that were missed by the fix for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5 lack a nil-items guard for legal OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas. An unauthenticated remote client can trigger a deterministic nil-pointer panic through an array query parameter, a deepObject query parameter containing an array property, or an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request body whose array property appears inside an allOf, anyOf, or oneOf subschema. The query and composed-body paths reach urlValuesDecoder.parseArray, while the deepObject path reaches buildResObj, and all pass a nil items schema into code that dereferences it. This issue is fixed in version 0.149.0.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 15, 2026, 5:17 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 15, 2026, 5:17 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH MITRE-CVE
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Update kin-openapi to version 0.149.0 or later to fix a nil-pointer dereference vulnerability.
  • Update kin-openapi to 0.149.0 or later.
  • Ensure array schemas have nil-items guards.
  • Validate query parameters and request bodies.
  • Apply security patches promptly.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/commit/9814d1f2b212f3508bf52296aa9e248b2122a5a9
https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/releases/tag/v0.149.0
https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/security/advisories/GHSA-vrcc-3ch7-hppw
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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 15, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.136.0 until 0.149.0, three openapi3filter decoder paths that were missed by the fix for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5 lack a nil-items guard for legal OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas. An unauthenticated remote client can trigger a deterministic nil-pointer panic through an array query parameter, a deepObject query parameter containing an array property, or an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request body whose array property appears inside an allOf, anyOf, or oneOf subschema. The query and composed-body paths reach urlValuesDecoder.parseArray, while the deepObject path reaches buildResObj, and all pass a nil items schema into code that dereferences it. This issue is fixed in version 0.149.0.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-476
    Added Affected New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/100xxx/CVE-2026-100353.json">CVE-2026-100353</a>
    Added Reference https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/commit/9814d1f2b212f3508bf52296aa9e248b2122a5a9
    Added Reference https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/releases/tag/v0.149.0
    Added Reference https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/security/advisories/GHSA-vrcc-3ch7-hppw
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