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CVE-2026-93450 (GCVE-0-2026-93450)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 23:25 – Updated: 2026-09-17 23:25
VLAI
Title
go-openapi/swag jsonutils before 0.27.1 Uncontrolled Recursion in Ordered JSON Marshal and Unmarshal
Summary
go-openapi/swag jsonutils before 0.27.1 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in ordered JSON parsing and serialization due to unbounded recursion with no depth limit. Remote unauthenticated attackers can submit deeply nested JSON documents to services accepting OpenAPI specifications, causing fatal stack overflow that terminates the process and all in-flight requests.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
go-openapi swag Affected: 0 , < 0.27.1 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-07-19 00:00
Credits
Wei Zhang, PayPal Cyber Security Team
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