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snakeyaml — security advisory
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.
- Products
- snakeyaml
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.31-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-38751
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38751
snakeyaml
Fixed versions: 1.31-1
snakeyaml
Fixed versions: 1.31-1
snakeyaml
Fixed versions: 1.31-1
Complete source record
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