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SCA: security update for github.com/getkin/kin-openapi (GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 474691

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.136.0 until 0.143.0, openapi3filter accepts
 OpenAPI 3.1 array schemas without an items keyword and then dereferences the nil Schema.Items value while
 decoding application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data request bodies, response headers, and
 other array parameter surfaces. A remote unauthenticated client can reach an affected operation with a
 nonempty request or matching response and deterministically trigger a nil-pointer panic during
 ValidateRequest or ValidateResponse. OpenAPI 3.0 documents are not affected because document validation
 rejects arrays without items, and JSON request bodies use a different decoder path. This issue is fixed in
 version 0.143.0. (CVE-2026-97394)

Solution

Update the github.com/getkin/kin-openapi library and its related packages to version 0.143.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p6wj-qrr4-pgh5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 474691

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/16/2026

Updated: 10/16/2026

Risk Information

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-97394

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-97394