CVE-2026-100348kin-openapi spec loader panics on a self-referential additionalProperties $ref (nil-pointer DoS)
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 68% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. Prior to 0.145.0, openapi3.Loader can dereference a nil SchemaRef.Value while resolving a self-referential additionalProperties JSON Reference such as a schema that points to its own additionalProperties member. Loading an attacker-controlled OpenAPI document through LoadFromData, LoadFromFile, or LoadFromURI reaches resolveComponent before document validation and can panic the loading process. Resolved additionalProperties schemas and ordinary recursive schemas do not take the vulnerable nil-value path. This issue is fixed in version 0.145.0.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 68% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
- affected < 0.145.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/getkin/kin-openapiGHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/security/advisories/GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/commit/88aa64c7cbd03ecadbb419c473bdcaa8b0124c6b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/releases/tag/v0.145.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-102151 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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