VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-46385

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.61%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-05-29
Last modified2026-09-09
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

iskorotkov/avro is a fast Go Avro codec. Prior to 2.33.0, the Avro array and map decoders looped over an attacker-controlled block-count value without checking the underlying reader's error state inside the loop body. Reader.ReadBlockHeader returns the count as a Go int, which is 64-bit on amd64 / arm64 targets — so a producer can declare a block of up to math.MaxInt64 (~9.2 × 10¹⁸) elements followed by EOF (or any truncated payload), and the decoder will attempt that many no-op iterations before propagating the error. The realistic ceiling is "indefinite until the worker is killed externally" — a single hostile payload pins a CPU core until the process is OOM-killed, deadline-cancelled, or terminated. Remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.33.0.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400
  • 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c: CWE-835

Primary references