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GHSA-mx64-mj3q-7prj: iskorotkov/avro: Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in Decoder

May 18, 2026

The Avro map decoder accepted attacker-controlled block-element counts from the wire format and grew the destination map without enforcing an upper bound. The slice decoder already had Config.MaxSliceAllocSize for the equivalent attack against arrays; the map decoder had no analogous limit, so a producer could declare an arbitrarily large map (in one block, or chunked across many sub-limit blocks) and exhaust process memory until the OOM killer fired.

The fix introduces Config.MaxMapAllocSize with cumulative enforcement across block boundaries. The new limit is opt-in: the field defaults to zero, which preserves the previous unbounded behavior for backward compatibility. Upgrading to v2.33.0 alone does not mitigate the issue — consumers of untrusted Avro data must explicitly set MaxMapAllocSize on their avro.Config.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-mx64-mj3q-7prj
  • github.com/iskorotkov/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-mx64-mj3q-7prj

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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-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Source file

go/github.com/iskorotkov/avro/v2/GHSA-mx64-mj3q-7prj.yml

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