CVE-2026-100353: kin-openapi: Incomplete Fix for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5: Three Unpatched nil-Items Panic Paths in openapi3filter
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)
- 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: 0.33% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: getkin kin-openapi 0.149.0.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to getkin kin-openapi 0.149.0 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 0.136.0 until 0.149.0, three openapi3filter decoder paths that were missed by the fix for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5 lack a nil-items guard for legal OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas. An unauthenticated remote client can trigger a deterministic nil-pointer panic through an array query parameter, a deepObject query parameter containing an array property, or an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request body whose array property appears inside an allOf, anyOf, or oneOf subschema. The query and composed-body paths reach urlValuesDecoder.parseArray, while the deepObject path reaches buildResObj, and all pass a nil items schema into code that dereferences it. This issue is fixed in version 0.149.0.
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 29, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.3% · 26th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-476
Report tools
Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.3%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- proof of concept
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 7.5
- 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
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What does it mean in your environment?
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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
- >= 0.136.0, < 0.149.0affected
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 0.136.0 · before 0.149.0 | 0.149.0 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | timoni | before 0.36.0-1.1 | 0.36.0-1.1 |
| 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-2026-100352Oct 15, 2026 · kin-openapi: YAML NaN/Inf Values Bypass Built-in Guards and Panic via OAS 3.1 Validation Path30Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-97394Oct 15, 2026 · kin-openapi: Nil-pointer dereference panic in openapi3filter for OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas missing items30Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-100354Oct 15, 2026 · kin-openapi: Uncontrolled Recursion on Circular allOf/anyOf/oneOf Schemas Causes Fatal Process Crash30Monitor
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 | 0.149.0 · description | Vendor (CNA) |
| Go:github.com/getkin/kin-openapi | 0.149.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:timoni | 0.36.0-1.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed | 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
- TodayOct 31, 2026+16 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.
- CVE-2026-1003490 days apartkin-openapi openapi3filter: nil-pointer panic in ValidateResponse on a response header declared with content32Monitor
- CVE-2026-7690555 days apartkin-openapi openai3filter: nil-pointer panic in ConvertErrors on malformed multipart/form-data body enables unauthenticated DoS30Monitor
- CVE-2026-1003480 days apartkin-openapi spec loader panics on a self-referential additionalProperties $ref (nil-pointer DoS)21Monitor
- CVE-2026-7350258 days apartkin-openapi openapi3filter: unauthenticated nil-pointer panic when validating a request against a `content` parameter whose media type has no schema21Monitor
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.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer DereferenceCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.