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CVE-2022-38749

MEDIUM
Published 2022-09-05T00:00:00
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CVSS Score

V3.1
6.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.005
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.5% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.667
Higher than 66.7% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

snakeyaml

SnakeYAML

Affected Versions:

unspecified

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE

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

GHSA-c4r9-r8fh-9vj2

Advisory 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.

Affected Packages

Maven org.yaml:snakeyaml
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <1.31
Maven be.cylab:snakeyaml
Maven com.alipay.sofa.acts:acts-common-util
Maven io.prometheus.jmx:jmx_prometheus_httpserver
Maven io.prometheus.jmx:jmx_prometheus_httpserver_java6
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 ≤0.18.0
Maven org.testifyproject.external:external-snakeyaml
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 ≤1.0.6
Maven pl.droidsonroids.yaml:snakeyaml
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 ≤1.18.2

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38749
WEB https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05534.pdf
PACKAGE https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml
WEB https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525/got-stackoverflowerror-for-many-open
WEB https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47024
WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28
WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 6, 2022, Modified: March 15, 2024

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47024
https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525/got-stackoverflowerror-for-many-open
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/
Published: 2022-09-05T00:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.586Z
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