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.
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GHSA-xhj3-7xw9-vr34 | kin-openapi has uncontrolled resource consumption in openapi3filter deepObject query parameter decoding |
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Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | kin-openapi: Uncontrolled resource consumption in openapi3filter deepObject query parameter decoding | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 CWE-789 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-21T20:44:47.792Z
Reserved: 2026-08-20T19:28:35.244Z
Link: CVE-2026-77354
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-21T21:17:07.130
Modified: 2026-08-21T21:17:07.130
Link: CVE-2026-77354
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-21T23:30:17Z
Github GHSA