GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go. O3 Security confirms whether GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
Bird-lg-go has a Fatal Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service via Unbounded JSON Decoding
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 356,530 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-goReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
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:
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)
// ...
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go | all versions | 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Fix
Update github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go to 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
Tailored to GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm in your dependencies?
O3 detects GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm across Go dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.