GHSA-98wm-3w3q-mw94

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    GHSA-98wm-3w3q-mw94

    Published: 6 Sept 2022Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: snakeYAML before 1.31 vulnerable to Denial of Service due to Out-of-bounds Write

    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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38751, https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml, https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/530/stackoverflow-oss-fuzz-47039, https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/src/master/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue530/Fuzzy47039Test.java, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47039, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.yaml:snakeyaml

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.yaml/snakeyaml

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.31

    Affected versions

    1.10

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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