CVE-2022-38749 (GCVE-0-2022-38749)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-05 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 11:02
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Title
DoS in SnakeYAML
Summary
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 stackoverflow.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
snakeyaml SnakeYAML Affected: unspecified , < 1.31 (custom)
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