Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-97394

getkin kin-openapi

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

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

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, response headers, and other array parameter surfaces. A remote unauthenticated client can reach an affected operation with a nonempty request or matching response and deterministically trigger a nil-pointer panic during ValidateRequest or ValidateResponse. OpenAPI 3.0 documents are not affected because document validation rejects arrays without items, and JSON request bodies use a different decoder path. This issue is fixed in version 0.143.0.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
getkin kin-openapi >= 0.136.0, < 0.143.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-10-15
Last updated
2026-10-20
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
GitHub_M

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.61%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
49.6%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-248
    Uncaught Exception
  • CWE-476
    NULL Pointer Dereference