GHSA-P6WJ-QRR4-PGH5 kin-openapi: Nil-pointer dereference panic in openapi3filter for OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas missing items

Summary A nil-pointer dereference in openapi3filter lets any unauthenticated client crash a request handler with a single HTTP request against an OpenAPI 3.1 operation that declares type: array without items. OpenAPI 3.1 JSON Schema 2020-12 permits omitting items, and doc.Validate accepts such...

kin-openapi: Nil-pointer dereference panic in openapi3filter for OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas missing items

Summary A nil-pointer dereference in openapi3filter lets any unauthenticated client crash a request handler with a single HTTP request against an OpenAPI 3.1 operation that declares type: array without items. OpenAPI 3.1 JSON Schema 2020-12 permits omitting items, and doc.Validate accepts such...

CVE-2026-100353

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...

CVE-2026-100353

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...

CVE-2026-97394

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.136.0 until 0.143.0, openapi3filter accepts OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas without an items keyword and then dereferences the nil Schema.Items value while decoding application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data request bodies,...

CVE-2026-97394

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.136.0 until 0.143.0, openapi3filter accepts OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas without an items keyword and then dereferences the nil Schema.Items value while decoding application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data request bodies,...

CVE-2026-100349

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. Prior to 0.146.0, openapi3filter.ValidateResponse passes a nil response header schema to decodeValue when an OpenAPI document declares the header with content instead of schema. The document passes validation, but every response validation f...

CVE-2026-100353

The kin-openapi Go project, used for handling OpenAPI files, is vulnerable to a NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) in versions 0.136.0 through 0.149.0 . The root cause is a missing nil-items guard for legal OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas in three specific openapi3filter decoder paths. An unauthenticat...

EUVD-2026-102163

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...

CVE-2026-100353

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...

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

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...

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

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...

CVE-2026-100353

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...

CVE-2026-100349

The kin-openapi Go project is vulnerable to a nil-pointer panic in the openapi3filter.ValidateResponse function in versions prior to 0.146.0 . The root cause occurs when an OpenAPI document declares a response header with content instead of a schema . Although the document passes initial validati...

CVE-2026-100349 kin-openapi openapi3filter: nil-pointer panic in ValidateResponse on a response header declared with content

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. Prior to 0.146.0, openapi3filter.ValidateResponse passes a nil response header schema to decodeValue when an OpenAPI document declares the header with content instead of schema. The document passes validation, but every response validation f...

CVE-2026-100349 kin-openapi openapi3filter: nil-pointer panic in ValidateResponse on a response header declared with content

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. Prior to 0.146.0, openapi3filter.ValidateResponse passes a nil response header schema to decodeValue when an OpenAPI document declares the header with content instead of schema. The document passes validation, but every response validation f...

CVE-2026-100349 kin-openapi openapi3filter: nil-pointer panic in ValidateResponse on a response header declared with content

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. Prior to 0.146.0, openapi3filter.ValidateResponse passes a nil response header schema to decodeValue when an OpenAPI document declares the header with content instead of schema. The document passes validation, but every response validation f...

CVE-2026-100349

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. Prior to 0.146.0, openapi3filter.ValidateResponse passes a nil response header schema to decodeValue when an OpenAPI document declares the header with content instead of schema. The document passes validation, but every response validation f...

CVE-2026-100348

The kin-openapi Go project (prior to version 0.145.0 ) is vulnerable to a nil-pointer dereference leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) . The issue occurs when the openapi3.Loader processes an attacker-controlled OpenAPI document containing a self-referential additionalProperties JSON Reference. S...

CVE-2026-100348 kin-openapi spec loader panics on a self-referential additionalProperties $ref (nil-pointer DoS)

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-controlle...