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CVE-2026-46385: iskorotkov/avro: CPU Exhaustion in Decoder

May 18, 2026 (updated June 9, 2026)

The Avro array and map decoders looped over an attacker-controlled block-count value without checking the underlying reader’s error state inside the loop body. Reader.ReadBlockHeader returns the count as a Go int, which is 64-bit on amd64 / arm64 targets — so a producer can declare a block of up to math.MaxInt64 (~9.2 × 10¹⁸) elements followed by EOF (or any truncated payload), and the decoder will attempt that many no-op iterations before propagating the error. The realistic ceiling is “indefinite until the worker is killed externally” — a single hostile payload pins a CPU core until the process is OOM-killed, deadline-cancelled, or terminated. Remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service.

The fix exits the loop on the first inner-decode error. It does not bound the loop length itself; for full coverage on untrusted inputs, also configure Config.MaxSliceAllocSize and Config.MaxMapAllocSize (the latter introduced in v2.33.0).

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-w8j3-pq8g-8m7w
  • github.com/iskorotkov/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-w8j3-pq8g-8m7w
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46385

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.33.0

Fixed versions

  • 2.33.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.33.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Source file

go/github.com/iskorotkov/avro/v2/CVE-2026-46385.yml

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