CVE-2026-46385

high

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.

References

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-46385.json

https://github.com/iskorotkov/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-w8j3-pq8g-8m7w

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2483475

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46385

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41064

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41030

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30651

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-29

Updated: 2026-07-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: 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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00042