Microsoft.OpenAPI: Circular schema references may terminate OpenAPI parsing

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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. From 2.0.0-preview11 until 2.7.5 and 3.5.4, a small OpenAPI document containing a circular schema reference can cause process termination through stack overflow in Microsoft.OpenApi. The issue affects OpenAPI document parsing through public OpenAPI.NET reader APIs and has been confirmed across both JSON and YAML reader paths. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.5 and 3.5.4.

Source published

30 Jun 2026 16:01:00 UTC

Source modified

30 Jun 2026 18:58:34 UTC

Observed here

23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC

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

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. From 2.0.0-preview11 until 2.7.5 and 3.5.4, a small OpenAPI document containing a circular schema reference can cause process termination through stack overflow in Microsoft.OpenApi. The issue affects OpenAPI document parsing through public OpenAPI.NET reader APIs and has been confirmed across both JSON and YAML reader paths. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.5 and 3.5.4.

Source published

Jun 30, 2026, 4:01:00 PM (timezone not stated)

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Jun 30, 2026, 6:58:34 PM (timezone not stated)

Observed here

7 Nov 2026 11:31:50 UTC

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ENISA EUVD · source terms and attribution apply

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

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. From 2.0.0-preview11 until 2.7.5 and 3.5.4, a small OpenAPI document containing a circular schema reference can cause process termination through stack overflow in Microsoft.OpenApi. The issue affects OpenAPI document parsing through public OpenAPI.NET reader APIs and has been confirmed across both JSON and YAML reader paths. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.5 and 3.5.4.

Source published

30 Jun 2026 17:16:22 UTC

Source modified

25 Oct 2026 21:10:00 UTC

Observed here

27 Oct 2026 13:11:58 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

### Impact A small OpenAPI document containing a circular schema reference can cause process termination through stack overflow in Microsoft.OpenApi. The issue affects OpenAPI document parsing through public OpenAPI.NET reader APIs and has been confirmed across both JSON and YAML reader paths. ## Affected versions - `>= 2.0.0-preview.11, <= 2.7.4` - `>= 3.0.0, <= 3.5.3` ### Patches - For the 2.X major version, versions 2.7.5 and above are patched. - For the 3.X major version, versions 3.5.4 and above are patched. - For the 1.X major version, the issue does not apply since that version of the library *could not* resolve references that pointed to another reference. ## Impact Applications, CLIs, developer tools, or services that parse untrusted OpenAPI documents in-process may be terminated by a crafted OpenAPI document containing circular schema references. The impact is availability/process termination only. This report does not claim remote code execution, authentication bypass, credential exposure, privilege escalation, data exposure, or Microsoft hosted service impact. ## Details A standalone isolated-process harness confirmed repeatable process termination through public OpenAPI.NET reader APIs. The issue reproduces in the affected released NuGet packages and affects both JSON and YAML reader paths. A separate Microsoft-owned local consumer, `microsoft/kiota`, also reproduces the termination through the `kiota show --openapi <file>` workflow. That workflow parses OpenAPI files in-process using Microsoft.OpenApi and Microsoft.OpenApi.YamlReader. ### Example payload ```json { "openapi": "3.0.0", "info": { "title": "Test", "version": "0.0.1" }, "paths": {}, "components": { "schemas": { "A": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/B" }, "B": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/A" } } } } ``` ## Remediation Users should upgrade to Microsoft.OpenApi `2.7.5` or `3.5.4`, depending on the major version line they consume. Applications that parse OpenAPI documents from untrusted sources should avoid parsing those documents in the primary application process when possible. Running parsing in an isolated process can reduce the blast radius of parser failures.

Source published

30 Jun 2026 15:56:24 UTC

Source modified

6 Jul 2026 13:15:09 UTC

Observed here

23 Oct 2026 16:01:25 UTC

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CVSS_V3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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