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CVE-2022-38752

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38752 describes a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the snakeYAML library, affecting snakeyaml_project snakeyaml. An attacker can exploit this by supplying specially crafted YAML content that causes a stack-overflow, leading to the parser crashing. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and no user interaction, resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:snakeyaml_project:snakeyaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0209 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (28)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.yaml:snakeyamlFixed in: 1.32
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19652-16823
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 snakeyaml on CBL Mariner 2.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.3.0Fixed in: snakeyaml
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.0Fixed in: snakeyaml
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7Fixed in: snakeyaml
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.33.0-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.33.0-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.33.0-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8Fixed in: candlepin-0:4.2.13-1.el8sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7Fixed in: snakeyaml
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: rh-sso7-keycloak-0:18.0.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: rh-sso7-keycloak-0:18.0.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9Fixed in: rh-sso7-keycloak-0:18.0.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL-8 based Middleware ContainersFixed in: rh-sso-7/sso76-openshift-rhel8:7.6-22
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.18.3.P2Fixed in: snakeyaml
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1Fixed in: snakeyaml
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat build of Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.3Fixed in: snakeyaml
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Developer Tools and ServicesFixed in: jenkins-2-plugins
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1Fixed in: snakeyaml
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Dev SpacesFixed in: devspaces/idea-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Dev SpacesFixed in: devspaces/udi-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: puppetserver
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel K 1Fixed in: snakeyaml
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: snakeyaml
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat support for Spring BootFixed in: snakeyaml
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat AMQ Broker 7Fixed in: snakeyaml
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-maven36-byte-buddy

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-38752Moderate

DoS in SnakeYAML

Sep 13, 2022
mavenGHSA-9w3m-gqgf-c4p9medium

snakeYAML before 1.32 vulnerable to Denial of Service due to Out-of-bounds Write

Sep 6, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-38752Moderate

snakeyaml: Uncaught exception in java.base/java.util.ArrayList.hashCode

Sep 5, 2022

References

bitbucket.org / snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/531/stackoverflow-oss-fuzz-47081
Third Party Advisory
bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail
Permissions Required
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-28
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240315-0009