# kin-openapi spec loader panics on a self-referential additionalProperties $ref (nil-pointer DoS)

Advisory record · `GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx` · `CVE-2026-100348` · `GO-2026-6789`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.3 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-476](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html)
- **Tags:** [Memory corruption](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/memory-corruption.md)
- **Published:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 5 Nov 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 15 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `github.com/getkin/kin-openapi` (Go): affected `<0.145.0`; fixed in `0.145.0`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> github.com/getkin/kin-openapi versions before 0.145.0 panic when the spec loader processes a self-referential additionalProperties $ref, crashing the process. An attacker who can get the loader to process a crafted OpenAPI document can cause a denial of service. Upgrade to 0.145.0. Until then, avoid loading untrusted specs.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.3 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0037, the 31st percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:12 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:12 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx)
- [OSV: GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx)
- <https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/security/advisories/GHSA-mh7x-f8wq-4jhx>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100348>
- <https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/commit/88aa64c7cbd03ecadbb419c473bdcaa8b0124c6b>
- <https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi>
- <https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/releases/tag/v0.145.0>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

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