CVE-2022-38750

Aliases:GHSA-hhhw-99gj-p3c3
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 05 Sept 2022, 00:00
Last modified:20 Nov 2024, 14:57

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
36/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.69% LOW
1% probability +0.61%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Sept 2022, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
20 Nov 2024, 14:57
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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 Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.69%• Percentile: 72%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

    The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

  • CWE-121•Stack-based Buffer Overflow

    A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    10.0

  • org.yaml•snakeyaml

    < 1.31

  • snakeyaml_project•snakeyaml

    < 1.31

  • snakeyaml•snakeyaml

    ≥ unspecified, < 1.31

References (8)