Medium severity · published Sep 5, 2022
CVE-2022-38749
Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS)
6.5
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
SN
Snakeyaml · Snakeyaml Project
before 1.31 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38749
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38749
Third Party Advisory
https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525/got-stackoverflowerror-for-many-open
Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47024
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/
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