CVE-2026-100351: kin-openapi: ValidationHandler security-requirement bypass via encoded-path operation confusion
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 29/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.48% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- Fixed version: getkin kin-openapi 0.147.0.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to getkin kin-openapi 0.147.0 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.144.0 until 0.147.0, openapi3filter.ValidationHandler validates an operation selected from decoded URL.Path while a downstream gorilla/mux router configured with UseEncodedPath can dispatch a different operation selected from URL.RawPath. When a public exact route and a protected parameterized route use the same method and overlap after decoding, an unauthenticated remote request containing an encoded path separator can be validated as public and then dispatched to the protected handler without invoking the configured AuthenticationFunc. The reachable path parameter is constrained to an encoded representation that decodes to the public literal route, and proxies that canonicalize the URI before forwarding prevent this specific mismatch. This issue is fixed in version 0.147.0.
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 42th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-289
Report tools
Action score
29
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 29 / 40 · 7.4 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- proof of concept
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 7.4
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No public exploit code on record
- A fix has been released
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
getkin kin-openapi
- >= 0.144.0, < 0.147.0affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/getkin/kin-openapi | from 0.144.0 · before 0.147.0 | 0.147.0 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | hugo | before 0.168.0-2.1 | 0.168.0-2.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | timoni | before 0.36.0-1.1 | 0.36.0-1.1 |
| Red Hat:hummingbird:1 | grafana12.4 | before 0:12.4.12-0.4.hum1 | 0:12.4.12-0.4.hum1 |
| Red Hat:hummingbird:1 | grafana13.2 | before 0:13.2.3-0.3.hum1 | 0:13.2.3-0.3.hum1 |
| Red Hat:hummingbird:1 | hugo | before 0:0.168.0-0.1.hum1 | 0:0.168.0-0.1.hum1 |
Same product
getkin: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-73501kin-openapi: ValidationHandler.Load() Fail-Open Authentication Bypass via NoopAuthenticationFunc Default36Monitor
- CVE-2026-77354kin-openapi: Uncontrolled resource consumption in openapi3filter deepObject query parameter decoding34Monitor
- CVE-2026-100349kin-openapi openapi3filter: nil-pointer panic in ValidateResponse on a response header declared with content32Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-100348Oct 15, 2026 · kin-openapi spec loader panics on a self-referential additionalProperties $ref (nil-pointer DoS)21Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-100350Oct 15, 2026 · kin-openapi deepObject query decoding repeatedly compiles an invariant regular expression21Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-100352Oct 15, 2026 · kin-openapi: YAML NaN/Inf Values Bypass Built-in Guards and Panic via OAS 3.1 Validation Path30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| getkin kin-openapi | 0.147.0 · description | Vendor (CNA) |
| Go:github.com/getkin/kin-openapi | 0.147.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:hugo | 0.168.0-2.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:timoni | 0.36.0-1.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:grafana12.4 | 0:12.4.12-0.4.hum1 · Red Hat:hummingbird:1 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:grafana13.2 | 0:13.2.3-0.3.hum1 · Red Hat:hummingbird:1 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:hugo | 0:0.168.0-0.1.hum1 · Red Hat:hummingbird:1 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
- Published
- Fix recordedsame day
- TodayNov 12, 2026+28 d
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-289 · Authentication Bypass by Alternate NameCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- SSVC exploitation— → poc
- Exploit maturity— → none
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.