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snakeyaml — security advisory
Those 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 stack overflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.
- Products
- snakeyaml
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.33-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-41854
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Those 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 stack overflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-41854
snakeyaml
Fixed versions: 1.33-1
snakeyaml
Fixed versions: 1.33-1
snakeyaml
Fixed versions: 1.33-1
Complete source record
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