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snakeYAML before 1.32 vulnerable to Denial of Service due to Out-of-bounds Write

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 6, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 15, 2024

Package

maven org.yaml:snakeyaml (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.32

Patched versions

1.32

Description

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DoS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stack-overflow.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 5, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 6, 2022
Reviewed Sep 13, 2022
Last updated Mar 15, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-38752

GHSA ID

GHSA-9w3m-gqgf-c4p9

Source code

Credits

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