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GHSA-jpcw-4wr7-c3vq: kin-openapi openapi3filter: unauthenticated nil-pointer panic when validating a request against a `content` parameter whose media type has no schema

July 24, 2026 (updated August 12, 2026)

openapi3filter.ValidateRequest contains a NULL-pointer-dereference denial of service: any unauthenticated client can crash the request-validation path with a single HTTP request. When an operation declares a content parameter (as opposed to a schema parameter) whose media type object has no schema, request validation dereferences that missing schema and panics. The document is legal under the OpenAPI Specification — kin-openapi’s own doc.Validate() accepts it — and the defect affects both OpenAPI 3.0.x and 3.1.x. Depending on how the library is wired into the server (see Impact), this ranges from a per-request abort with unbounded panic-log growth to a full remote process crash.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-jpcw-4wr7-c3vq
  • github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/commit/68ac2affa325514d7d6e731204d6a1edf6bdff64
  • github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/releases/tag/v0.144.0
  • github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/security/advisories/GHSA-jpcw-4wr7-c3vq
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73502

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.144.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.144.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.144.0 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Source file

go/github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/GHSA-jpcw-4wr7-c3vq.yml

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