7.5

CVE-2022-3064: Excessive resource consumption in gopkg.in/yaml.v2

Modified
AliasesRHSA-2023:1014RHSA-2024:10759RHSA-2024:10784
Published 27-12-2022Last modified 14-04-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-3064 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in gopkg.in/yaml.v2. EPSS estimates a 1.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 2% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.87%
0%100%
Low · +0.17 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 7
DLA-3479-1RHSA-2023:1275RHSA-2023:6346RHSA-2023:6938RHSA-2023:6939USN-6287-1

Timeline

  1. 27-12-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Parsing malicious or large YAML documents can consume excessive amounts of CPU or memory.

CVSS metrics

8 scores · 8 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.87%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

79%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.17 pp

From 1.70% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat11 products
  • etcd< 0:3.4.14-3.el9ost
  • etcd-debuginfo< 0:3.4.14-3.el9ost
  • etcd-debugsource< 0:3.4.14-3.el9ost
  • rhc< 1:0.2.5-1.el9_5 | < 1:0.2.5-1.el8_10
  • rhc-debuginfo< 1:0.2.5-1.el9_5 | < 1:0.2.5-1.el8_10
Chainguard4 products
  • dex-k8s-authenticator< 1.4.0-r34
  • k3d< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-proxy< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-tools< 5.6.0-r11
Ubuntu4 products
  • golang-github-coreos-discovery-etcd-ioAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • golang-yaml.v2< 0.0+git20160301.0.a83829b-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 0.0+git20170407.0.cd8b52f-1ubuntu2+esm1 | < 2.2.2-1ubuntu0.1
  • singularity-containerAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • webhookAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi3 products
  • k3d< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-proxy< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-tools< 5.6.0-r11
Debian1 product
  • golang-yaml.v2< 2.2.8-1
Gopkg.in1 product
  • yaml.v2< 2.2.4
Gopkg.in/yaml.v21 product
Yaml_project1 product

8 vendors · 26 products

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