CVE-2022-38751 describes a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in snakeYAML, where parsing untrusted YAML files can lead to a stack overflow and application crash. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction, resulting in high availability impact. While affecting products like Debian Linux and snakeYAML, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| 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 java.base/java.util.regex.Pattern$Ques.match
Sep 5, 2022