CVE-2022-38749

medium

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 stackoverflow.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47024

https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525/got-stackoverflowerror-for-many-open

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-09-05

Updated: 2024-03-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H