CVE-2026-72923

The OpenAPI.NET SDK contains a useful object model for OpenAPI documents in .NET along with common serializers to extract raw OpenAPI JSON and YAML documents from the model. In Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers versions before 1.6.30 and Microsoft.OpenApi.YamlReader from 2.0.0-preview.11 through 2.11.0 and 3.0.0 through 3.9.0, parsing a YAML OpenAPI document with nested anchors and aliases can consume uncontrolled memory. SharpYaml represents aliases as shared nodes in a small directed acyclic graph, but conversion to independent OpenAPI or System.Text.Json.Nodes.JsonNode trees duplicates every aliased path; without a node-count or nesting-depth limit, N nested anchors referenced k times can require k^N materialized nodes and terminate the process through an out-of-memory condition. The fixed readers bound materialization to 5,000,000 nodes and a nesting depth of 64 by default and report an OpenApiDiagnostic error when a limit is exceeded. This vulnerability is fixed in Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers 1.6.30 and Microsoft.OpenApi.YamlReader 2.12.0 and 3.10.0.

CVSS 3.1

7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-400

Published

2026-09-08

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://github.com/microsoft/OpenAPI.NET/commit/1f9aea9bdcbf4066b59ce33b3bd8f97ed9cb4766
• https://github.com/microsoft/OpenAPI.NET/commit/21793261d6860fb6e607b71fd95c0bd320724764
• https://github.com/microsoft/OpenAPI.NET/commit/4db9af07d112cdf45170b7a946f956ffe74fa14e
• https://github.com/microsoft/OpenAPI.NET/security/advisories/GHSA-7pxr-59rr-hqj2

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