CVE-2026-45047

HIGH

bird-lg-go: Fatal Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service via Unbounded JSON Decoding

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

bird-lg-go is a BIRD looking glass in Go. Prior to 1.4.5, the apiHandler (and similarly webHandlerTelegramBot) processes user-provided JSON payloads by directly using json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&request) without restricting the maximum read size. An unauthenticated remote attacker can stream an extremely large, endless JSON payload (e.g., several Gigabytes of padding) over a single TCP connection. Because Go's JSON decoder attempts to allocate memory for the entire parsed structure, this rapidly exhausts the host's physical RAM or container limits, leading to an unrecoverable fatal error: runtime: out of memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.5.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 34.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
xddxdd/bird-lg-go 0 - 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9eGo
xddxdd/bird-lg-go < 1.4.5
Published May 27, 2026
Tracked Since May 27, 2026