GHSA-RJ39-CV6W-8WV7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-15 20:20 – Updated: 2026-10-15 20:20
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Summary
kin-openapi: YAML NaN/Inf Values Bypass Built-in Guards and Panic via OAS 3.1 Validation Path
Details

Summary

kin-openapi guards against NaN and Inf values in its built-in schema visitor (visitJSON) by returning ErrSchemaInputNaN / ErrSchemaInputInf when a float64 input violates those constraints. For OAS 3.1 specs, however, Schema.VisitJSON routes through useJSONSchema2020, which hands the value directly to santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6 v6.0.2 without applying the same guard.

Inside jsonschema/v6 v6.0.2, numValidate builds a *big.Rat from the input via big.Rat.SetString(fmt.Sprintf("%v", v)). For NaN/Inf this parse fails silently and returns nil. numValidate then dereferences the nil *big.Rat (in math/big.(*Rat).Cmp), producing a Go runtime panic.

An attacker delivers this by sending an HTTP request with Content-Type: application/yaml (or application/x-yaml) and a YAML body containing .nan, .inf, or -.inf. The YamlBodyDecoder decodes those tokens into math.NaN() / math.Inf(±1) (standard YAML 1.2 behavior), and they propagate to the unguarded useJSONSchema2020 path whenever the schema declares a numeric constraint (minimum, maximum, exclusiveMinimum, exclusiveMaximum, or multipleOf).

Details

Root Cause

The built-in visitor visitJSON at openapi3/schema.go:1968 guards NaN/Inf explicitly:

case float64:
    if math.IsNaN(value) {
        return ErrSchemaInputNaN
    }
    if math.IsInf(value, 0) {
        return ErrSchemaInputInf
    }

For OAS 3.1 specs, VisitJSON dispatches to useJSONSchema2020 (openapi3/schema_jsonschema_validator.go:204), which contains no such guard:

func (schema *Schema) useJSONSchema2020(settings *schemaValidationSettings, value any) error {
    validator, err := newJSONSchemaValidator(schema)
    if err != nil {
        return schema.visitJSON(settings, value)
    }
    return validator.validate(value)      // value handed straight through
}

jsonSchemaValidator.validate calls jsonschema/v6.Schema.Validate (line 146), which reaches numValidate in v6.0.2. There, big.Rat.SetString(fmt.Sprintf("%v", v)) returns (nil, false) for NaN/Inf, and the code dereferences the nil *big.Rat in Rat.Cmp, causing the panic.

Proof of Concept

Environment

  • kin-openapi v0.144.0 (tag v0.144.0, commit f0407d5)
  • santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6 v6.0.2 (transitive dep)
  • Go 1.26.7

Spec

Minimal OAS 3.1 spec (spec.yaml) declaring a YAML body with a numeric constraint:

openapi: '3.1.0'
info: { title: Test, version: '1.0' }
paths:
  /test:
    post:
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/yaml:
            schema:
              type: number
              minimum: 0
      responses:
        '200': { description: OK }

Trigger

A single POST /test with Content-Type: application/yaml and body .nan, .inf, or -.inf. All three variants panic:

=== RUN   TestNaNInf
[nan]    PANIC (confirms vuln): runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[inf]    PANIC (confirms vuln): runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[neginf] PANIC (confirms vuln): runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

Panic stack trace (confirms exact chain)

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

math/big.(*Rat).Cmp(0x0, ...)                                       <- nil *big.Rat dereferenced
    C:/Program Files/Go/src/math/big/rat.go:492
github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6.(*validator).numValidate(...)
    .../jsonschema/v6@v6.0.2/validator.go:525
github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6.(*validator).validate(...)
    .../jsonschema/v6@v6.0.2/validator.go:168
github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6.(*Schema).validate(...)
    .../jsonschema/v6@v6.0.2/validator.go:34
github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3.(*jsonSchemaValidator).validate(...)
    openapi3/schema_jsonschema_validator.go:146
github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3.(*Schema).useJSONSchema2020(...)   <- MISSING NaN/Inf guard
    openapi3/schema_jsonschema_validator.go:211
github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3.(*Schema).VisitJSON(...)
    openapi3/schema.go:1946
github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter.ValidateRequestBody(...)
    openapi3filter/validate_request.go:364
github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter.ValidateRequest(...)
    openapi3filter/validate_request.go:96

net/http behavior (severity nuance)

Behind a standard net/http server, the panic is recovered per-connection. The client sees a dropped connection; the server process continues:

Sending POST /test body=.nan against real net/http server...
2026/08/25 http: panic serving 127.0.0.1:40625: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
CLIENT ERROR (connection dropped): Post ".../test": EOF
Process still alive after request: true

This is a recoverable panic, unlike the recursion finding. recover() catches it (verified by capturing the panic value in a defer in the same goroutine). Non-net/http hosts or validation performed in an application-spawned goroutine are not covered by that recovery and would experience a full-process crash.

Fix verification

Upgrading only the transitive dependency to jsonschema/v6@v6.0.3 (via go get github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6@v6.0.3) eliminates the panic entirely; all three payloads return a clean validation error:

[nan]    Returned normally, err = request body has an error: doesn't match schema: validation failed due to: at '': invalid jsonType float64
[inf]    Returned normally, err = request body has an error: doesn't match schema: validation failed due to: at '': invalid jsonType float64
[neginf] Returned normally, err = request body has an error: doesn't match schema: validation failed due to: at '': invalid jsonType float64

This confirms the upstream jsonschema/v6 v6.0.3 release treats the NaN/Inf case as a bug and fixes it at the source. It also confirms useJSONSchema2020 is the reachable path: patching only the transitive dep removes the panic without touching kin-openapi code.

Why This Is a Vulnerability, Not by Design

  • The library explicitly refuses NaN/Inf in its own visitor (ErrSchemaInputNaN / ErrSchemaInputInf at schema.go:1968). The stated policy is: these values are not allowed.
  • The OAS 3.1 dispatch (useJSONSchema2020) simply omits the same guard — a coding gap, not a design decision.
  • Upstream jsonschema/v6 v6.0.3 fixes the same case as a bug. Two independent code owners agree it should not panic.
  • The trigger is a single HTTP request body an unauthenticated client can send. There is no legitimate content-authoring reason to submit .nan / .inf as a numeric field.

Impact

  • Per-request denial of service (net/http hosts). Every crafted request kills its own connection with zero attacker cost. Sustained flooding degrades service reliability and log noise.
  • Full-process denial of service (non-net/http hosts or goroutine-spawned validation). No net/http recovery wrapper is present; the whole process crashes on a single request.
  • Attack surface is any OAS 3.1 API that accepts YAML bodies with numeric constraints. These constraints (minimum, maximum, exclusiveMinimum, exclusiveMaximum, multipleOf) are common on any numeric field with a range.
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "github.com/getkin/kin-openapi"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.148.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-100352"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-754"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-10-15T20:20:27Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-10-15T16:17:31Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "## Summary\n\nkin-openapi guards against `NaN` and `Inf` values in its built-in schema visitor (`visitJSON`) by returning `ErrSchemaInputNaN` / `ErrSchemaInputInf` when a `float64` input violates those constraints. For OAS 3.1 specs, however, `Schema.VisitJSON` routes through `useJSONSchema2020`, which hands the value directly to `santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6` v6.0.2 without applying the same guard.\n\nInside `jsonschema/v6` v6.0.2, `numValidate` builds a `*big.Rat` from the input via `big.Rat.SetString(fmt.Sprintf(\"%v\", v))`. For `NaN`/`Inf` this parse fails silently and returns `nil`. `numValidate` then dereferences the nil `*big.Rat` (in `math/big.(*Rat).Cmp`), producing a Go runtime panic.\n\nAn attacker delivers this by sending an HTTP request with `Content-Type: application/yaml` (or `application/x-yaml`) and a YAML body containing `.nan`, `.inf`, or `-.inf`. The `YamlBodyDecoder` decodes those tokens into `math.NaN()` / `math.Inf(\u00b11)` (standard YAML 1.2 behavior), and they propagate to the unguarded `useJSONSchema2020` path whenever the schema declares a numeric constraint (`minimum`, `maximum`, `exclusiveMinimum`, `exclusiveMaximum`, or `multipleOf`).\n\n## Details\n### Root Cause\n\nThe built-in visitor `visitJSON` at `openapi3/schema.go:1968` guards NaN/Inf explicitly:\n\n```go\ncase float64:\n    if math.IsNaN(value) {\n        return ErrSchemaInputNaN\n    }\n    if math.IsInf(value, 0) {\n        return ErrSchemaInputInf\n    }\n```\n\nFor OAS 3.1 specs, `VisitJSON` dispatches to `useJSONSchema2020` (`openapi3/schema_jsonschema_validator.go:204`), which contains no such guard:\n\n```go\nfunc (schema *Schema) useJSONSchema2020(settings *schemaValidationSettings, value any) error {\n    validator, err := newJSONSchemaValidator(schema)\n    if err != nil {\n        return schema.visitJSON(settings, value)\n    }\n    return validator.validate(value)      // value handed straight through\n}\n```\n\n`jsonSchemaValidator.validate` calls `jsonschema/v6.Schema.Validate` (line 146), which reaches `numValidate` in v6.0.2. There, `big.Rat.SetString(fmt.Sprintf(\"%v\", v))` returns `(nil, false)` for `NaN`/`Inf`, and the code dereferences the `nil` `*big.Rat` in `Rat.Cmp`, causing the panic.\n\n## Proof of Concept\n\n### Environment\n\n- kin-openapi v0.144.0 (tag `v0.144.0`, commit `f0407d5`)\n- santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6 v6.0.2 (transitive dep)\n- Go 1.26.7\n\n### Spec\n\nMinimal OAS 3.1 spec (`spec.yaml`) declaring a YAML body with a numeric constraint:\n\n```yaml\nopenapi: \u00273.1.0\u0027\ninfo: { title: Test, version: \u00271.0\u0027 }\npaths:\n  /test:\n    post:\n      requestBody:\n        required: true\n        content:\n          application/yaml:\n            schema:\n              type: number\n              minimum: 0\n      responses:\n        \u0027200\u0027: { description: OK }\n```\n\n### Trigger\n\nA single `POST /test` with `Content-Type: application/yaml` and body `.nan`, `.inf`, or `-.inf`. All three variants panic:\n\n```\n=== RUN   TestNaNInf\n[nan]    PANIC (confirms vuln): runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference\n[inf]    PANIC (confirms vuln): runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference\n[neginf] PANIC (confirms vuln): runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference\n```\n\n### Panic stack trace (confirms exact chain)\n\n```\npanic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference\n\nmath/big.(*Rat).Cmp(0x0, ...)                                       \u003c- nil *big.Rat dereferenced\n    C:/Program Files/Go/src/math/big/rat.go:492\ngithub.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6.(*validator).numValidate(...)\n    .../jsonschema/v6@v6.0.2/validator.go:525\ngithub.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6.(*validator).validate(...)\n    .../jsonschema/v6@v6.0.2/validator.go:168\ngithub.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6.(*Schema).validate(...)\n    .../jsonschema/v6@v6.0.2/validator.go:34\ngithub.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3.(*jsonSchemaValidator).validate(...)\n    openapi3/schema_jsonschema_validator.go:146\ngithub.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3.(*Schema).useJSONSchema2020(...)   \u003c- MISSING NaN/Inf guard\n    openapi3/schema_jsonschema_validator.go:211\ngithub.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3.(*Schema).VisitJSON(...)\n    openapi3/schema.go:1946\ngithub.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter.ValidateRequestBody(...)\n    openapi3filter/validate_request.go:364\ngithub.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter.ValidateRequest(...)\n    openapi3filter/validate_request.go:96\n```\n\n### net/http behavior (severity nuance)\n\nBehind a standard `net/http` server, the panic is recovered per-connection. The client sees a dropped connection; the server process continues:\n\n```\nSending POST /test body=.nan against real net/http server...\n2026/08/25 http: panic serving 127.0.0.1:40625: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference\nCLIENT ERROR (connection dropped): Post \".../test\": EOF\nProcess still alive after request: true\n```\n\nThis is a **recoverable panic**, unlike the recursion finding. `recover()` catches it (verified by capturing the panic value in a `defer` in the same goroutine). Non-`net/http` hosts or validation performed in an application-spawned goroutine are not covered by that recovery and would experience a full-process crash.\n\n### Fix verification\n\nUpgrading only the transitive dependency to `jsonschema/v6@v6.0.3` (via `go get github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6@v6.0.3`) eliminates the panic entirely; all three payloads return a clean validation error:\n\n```\n[nan]    Returned normally, err = request body has an error: doesn\u0027t match schema: validation failed due to: at \u0027\u0027: invalid jsonType float64\n[inf]    Returned normally, err = request body has an error: doesn\u0027t match schema: validation failed due to: at \u0027\u0027: invalid jsonType float64\n[neginf] Returned normally, err = request body has an error: doesn\u0027t match schema: validation failed due to: at \u0027\u0027: invalid jsonType float64\n```\n\nThis confirms the upstream `jsonschema/v6` v6.0.3 release treats the NaN/Inf case as a bug and fixes it at the source. It also confirms `useJSONSchema2020` is the reachable path: patching only the transitive dep removes the panic without touching kin-openapi code.\n\n## Why This Is a Vulnerability, Not by Design\n\n- The library explicitly refuses NaN/Inf in its own visitor (`ErrSchemaInputNaN` / `ErrSchemaInputInf` at `schema.go:1968`). The stated policy is: these values are not allowed.\n- The OAS 3.1 dispatch (`useJSONSchema2020`) simply omits the same guard \u2014 a coding gap, not a design decision.\n- Upstream `jsonschema/v6` v6.0.3 fixes the same case as a bug. Two independent code owners agree it should not panic.\n- The trigger is a single HTTP request body an unauthenticated client can send. There is no legitimate content-authoring reason to submit `.nan` / `.inf` as a numeric field.\n\n## Impact\n\n- **Per-request denial of service (net/http hosts).** Every crafted request kills its own connection with zero attacker cost. Sustained flooding degrades service reliability and log noise.\n- **Full-process denial of service (non-net/http hosts or goroutine-spawned validation).** No `net/http` recovery wrapper is present; the whole process crashes on a single request.\n- **Attack surface is any OAS 3.1 API that accepts YAML bodies with numeric constraints.** These constraints (`minimum`, `maximum`, `exclusiveMinimum`, `exclusiveMaximum`, `multipleOf`) are common on any numeric field with a range.",
  "id": "GHSA-rj39-cv6w-8wv7",
  "modified": "2026-10-15T20:20:27Z",
  "published": "2026-10-15T20:20:27Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/security/advisories/GHSA-rj39-cv6w-8wv7"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100352"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/commit/4487f198ab8be0c37d6ca72c54f5dca4dc25270e"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/releases/tag/v0.148.0"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "kin-openapi: YAML NaN/Inf Values Bypass Built-in Guards and Panic via OAS 3.1 Validation Path"
}



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