CVE-2026-46385
iskorotkov/avro: CPU Exhaustion in Avro Decoder
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.7 High
- Published
- May 29, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 9, 2026
- Reserved
- May 13, 2026
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 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 | GitHub_M |
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat-SADP |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
avroiskorotkov |
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References
- https://github.com/iskorotkov/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-w8j3-pq8g-8m7w
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46385vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2483475issue-tracking
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-46385.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48151vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41030vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:44622vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47149vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53530vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41064vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30651vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57191vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42852vendor-advisory
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