FKIE_CVE-2026-46385

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-29 20:16 - Updated: 2026-06-01 17:17
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
Summary
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/iskorotkov/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-w8j3-pq8g-8m7w
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/iskorotkov/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-w8j3-pq8g-8m7w
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      "value": "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\u0027s error state inside the loop body. Reader.ReadBlockHeader returns the count as a Go int, which is 64-bit on amd64 / arm64 targets \u2014 so a producer can declare a block of up to math.MaxInt64 (~9.2 \u00d7 10\u00b9\u2078) 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\" \u2014 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."
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  "id": "CVE-2026-46385",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-01T17:17:34.323",
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