CVE-2022-38749

MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.53%

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

Published: 9/6/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (8)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (9)