CVE-2022-38751

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    CVE-2022-38751

    Published: 5 Sept 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: DoS in SnakeYAML

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/530/stackoverflow-oss-fuzz-47039, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47039, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/38xxx/CVE-2022-38751.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38751, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -04401a88fa9b36f555cdc91f72ca1e724090c031

    Affected versions

    snakeyaml-1.30

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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