vulnerability / NVI-00011971 / Revision 2
kin-openapi: Incomplete Fix for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5: Three Unpatched nil-Items Panic Paths in openapi3filter
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7.5 high
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github.com/getkin/kin-openapi
source listed>= 0.136.0, < 0.149.0
## Summary The fix for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5 addressed a nil-pointer dereference that occurs when an OpenAPI 3.1 array schema omits the `items` keyword (which is legal under JSON Schema 2020-12). That fix patched three decoder paths: the standalone `parseArray` function, the top-level array check in `UrlencodedBodyDecoder`, and `MultipartBodyDecoder`. Three additional crash paths were missed. All of them reach the unguarded `urlValuesDecoder.parseArray` method (`openapi3filter/req_resp_decoder.go:576`) or the unguarded array branch in `buildResObj` (line 1015): 1. **Query parameters** with `type: array` and no `items`. 2. **deepObject** query parameters containing an array property with no `items`. 3. **URL-encoded request bodies** where the array lives inside an `allOf` / `anyOf` / `oneOf` sub-schema. This path bypasses the guard added by the GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5 fix, because that guard only inspects top-level properties. Each path is triggerable by an unauthenticated client and produces a deterministic nil-pointer panic during request validation. ## Details ### Root Cause The three paths patched for GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5 each received a nil-`items` guard: ```go // standalone pa
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- GHSA-vrcc-3ch7-hppw ↗
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- CVE-2026-100353 ↗
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