CVE-2022-38750 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting products using the snakeYAML parser, including Debian Linux and snakeyaml_project. An attacker can exploit this by providing specially crafted, untrusted YAML input, causing a stack overflow and crashing the parser. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), successful exploitation requires user interaction and local access, leading to high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:snakeyaml_project:snakeyaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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DoS in SnakeYAML
Sep 13, 2022snakeYAML before 1.31 vulnerable to Denial of Service due to Out-of-bounds Write
Sep 6, 2022snakeyaml: Uncaught exception in org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.constructObject
Sep 5, 2022