CVE-2026-45047
HIGHbird-lg-go: Fatal Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service via Unbounded JSON Decoding
Title source: cnaDescription
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
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https://github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go/security/advisories/GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm
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