GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f

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    GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f

    Published: 25 Aug 2023Last Modified: 16 Feb 2024

    Summary: Esoteric YamlBeans XML Entity Expansion vulnerability

    Details: An issue was discovered in Esoteric YamlBeans through 1.15. A crafted YAML document is able perform am XML Entity Expansion attack against YamlBeans YamlReader. By exploiting the Anchor feature in YAML, it is possible to generate a small YAML document that, when read, is expanded to a large size, causing CPU and memory consumption, such as a Java Out-of-Memory exception.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24620, https://contrastsecurity.com, https://github.com/Contrast-Security-OSS/yamlbeans/blob/main/SECURITY.md, https://github.com/EsotericSoftware, https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/yamlbeans

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans:yamlbeans

    Purl: pkg:maven/com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans/yamlbeans

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.06

    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
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