CVE-2017-18640

HIGH7.5EPSS 2.8%

SnakeYAML Entity Expansion during load operation

Published: 6/4/2021Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

The Alias feature in SnakeYAML before 1.26 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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