Upstream information

CVE-2026-73502 at MITRE

Description

kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.2.0 until 0.144.0, openapi3filter.ValidateRequest can encounter a NULL-pointer-dereference denial of service when an operation declares a content parameter whose application/json media type has no schema. In openapi3filter/req_resp_decoder.go, the default defaultContentParameterDecoder dereferences mt.Schema.Value without checking whether mt.Schema is nil, even though doc.Validate() accepts the document under OpenAPI 3.0.x and 3.1.x. A single unauthenticated request supplying the parameter value can panic request validation, causing an aborted request with log growth in the common synchronous net/http path or a full process crash in integrations without recovery. This issue is fixed in version 0.144.0.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 5.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1 (aarch64,ppc64le,s390x,x86_64)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1 (aarch64,ppc64le,s390x,x86_64)


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Sep 4 16:52:17 2026
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 28 14:10:58 2026