GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm Bird-lg-go has a Fatal Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service via Unbounded JSON Decoding

HIGH Published 2026-05-11 Modified 2026-06-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-45047
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2026-05-11

Affected packages

• Go github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go: < 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e → fixed in 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e

Description

Summary 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 causes the Linux OOM Killer to instantly terminate the entire `bird-lg-go` daemon, resulting in a severe Remote Denial of Service (RDoS). Details In `api.go`: ```go func apiHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { var request apiRequest // VULNERABILITY: No http.MaxBytesReader protection before JSON decode err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&request) // ...

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-45047 bird-lg-go is a BIRD looking glass in Go. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References